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Memcon 2004, Santa Clara, California November 9, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has joined the LSI Logic RapidChip® Partner Program to deliver quality IP solutions. The RapidChip Partner Program offers customers ready-to-use, fully verified and best-in-class products and services to develop advanced, next-generation technologies. “GDA is elated to be associated with the LSI Logic RapidChip Partner Program. The ability of the RapidChip platform to deliver a low latency, high system performance, low risk path for building multi-gigabit serial interface designs along with the faster time-to-market at affordable NRE cost shall greatly benefit our IP customers.” said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP Business at GDA Technologies. "We strive to deliver quality IP solutions and take pride in LSI Logic’s selection of our IP cores for their RapidChip Platform ASICs." “GDA is a proven supplier of high quality, compliant and interoperable high speed interconnect IP such as PCI Express, HyperTransport, RapidIO, Advanced Switching, Gigabit Ethernet, SPI4 and we are pleased to offer GDA IP to our RapidChip customers,” said Ronnie Vasishta, vice president of Technology Marketing at LSI Logic. “RapidChip customers can easily integrate their design functionality with GDA IP and with LSI Logic’s industry-compliant high-speed SerDes and embedded standard processors, pre-built on a RapidChip slice.” About RapidChip The RapidChip® semiconductor platform combines the high-density, high-performance benefits of cell-based ASICs with the fast time-to-market and customization benefits of FPGAs, and the proven IP benefits of ASSPs. Targeting the communications, consumer, storage and other markets, RapidChip Platform ASICs use LSI Logic's high-performance field-tested CoreWare® IP, customizable logic, embedded memory, and innovative design concepts to significantly reduce design and manufacturing risk and costs. RapidChip Platform ASICs also provide a fast and seamless migration path to full standard-cell ASIC driving unit costs even lower. Unique to RapidChip Platform ASICs is the customer-friendly interface that dramatically simplifies the underlying complexity of the design tools and flows associated with SoC design. Rule sets automatically manage architectural design, verification, and physical design. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – November 5, 2004 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the release of its Dual G4 based Single Board Computer (SBC), an industry standard 6U cPCI form-factor board for value-added resellers, system integrators and OEMs. The Dual G4 cPCI Single Board Computer is designed around two tightly coupled G4 Power PC Processors (MPC 7457 at 1.2GHz) from Freescale Semiconductor and a Discovery III system controller from Marvell Technology. The system controller supports DDR SDRAM at 333 MHz, Flash Memory, two PCI interfaces, Copper and Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces and a serial interface. In addition, the board provides a PMC interface, an I2C interface for monitoring the board and CPU temperatures and a JTAG interface for testability. This fully hot swappable, Dual G4 board can act as a system controller or an intelligent peripheral board, with the help of the PCI to PCI bridge provided on the platform, in a variety of plug and play applications in telecommunication, enterprise networking and Internet infrastructure systems. This cost-effective solution will allow system developers and OEMs to quickly launch products such as high end fire walls, deep packet classification, security/intrusion detection, Ipv4 and Ipv6 management, Billing systems, VPN servers and Instrumentation. “GDA has enabled several standard form factor processor engines and line interface cards. It owns reference designs built around today’s leading communication and network processors that include Motorola’s Power PC, PowerQUICC II and III integrated processors, Intel’s IXP2400 and 2800 Network Process and NetSilicon’s Net+50 processor. GDA portfolio solves our customer needs, which include the need for higher compute power and distributed computing and the need for standard form factors and high speed interconnect,” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President, System and Software Design Services Business Unit. Along with the hardware, GDA provides Flash based firmware and board support packages for Embedded Linux. Support for other Operating Systems will be available in the first quarter of 2005. “GDA is making strong investments in applications and product designs using high end processor technologies and industry standard form factors to allow our customers to shorten their time-to-market. Our current embedded design portfolio spans across different standards like Advanced TCA, AMC, PMC, cPCI form factors using industry leading CPUs and NPUs. GDA will continue to invest in such industry standard form factor designs,” said Manik Bahri, Marketing Manager, System and Software Design Business Unit. Pricing and Availability GDA’s Dual G4 based SBC is now available. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – November 1, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing Electronic Design Services (EDS) company and IBM Business Partner, today announced that it has validated its SIGe design services as Ready for IBM Technology for IBM’s 0.50um and 0.18um silicon germanium BiCMOS process technologies. The Ready for IBM Technology program is intended help IBM’s foundry customers speed time to market, reduce development risk, lower development costs and improve return on investment by identifying design centers that have tested and validated their methodologies for compatibility with IBM technologies. “GDA is very much pleased to become a part of IBM’s RFIT foundry program. With this certification, GDA with its IP and services capabilities are well positioned to offer full turnkey services based on advanced IBM technologies “said Ravi Thummarukudy VP and GM IC solutions, GDA Technologies Inc. “We welcome GDA Technologies, Inc. into the Ready for IBM Technology program," said Ned Cahoon, manager of IBM's foundry business development. “GDA’s design services and development capabilities can provide IBM foundry customers with additional choices and flexibility to help meet their requirements.” About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. SAN JOSE –October 20, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it is developing a Reference Design Kit around the Intel® IXP23XX product line of network processors (NPU). The new network processors combine microengines, network processing elements (NPEs) and enhanced Intel XScale® technology to support data plane and control plane processing in a single chip. The GDA Technologies’ Reference Design Kit will be a PCI adapter card and will consist of an Intel® IXP23XX network processor subsystem with 128MB of SDRAM on microengine port, 32MB SDRAM on control plane port, flash memory and QDR II SRAM. To provide network connectivity, two Gigabit ports and an OC-12 media interface will be designed into the board hardware. In addition, for manageability, bring-up support and software development, one RS232 and one 10/100 Ethernet port will also be available on the design. The GDA reference design kit is an ideal platform for embedded developers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators who want a flexible development environment around the Intel® IXP2325 and Intel® IXP2350 network processors for access and edge application. The high-performance NPU architecture provides processing headroom to support applications from DSLAMs to wireless infrastructure to wireless LAN aggregation switches to VPN Firewalls. GDA’s prior experience and expertise with Intel® IXP2400 and Intel® IXP2800 network processor- based hardware design and micro-code development means GDA’s customers now have a wider choice of design platforms. The consistent Intel® IXP2XXX software and hardware architecture helps to protect development investment and speed deployment of a broad product portfolio. “GDA is committed to continuing to invest in Intel® IXP2XXX network processor-based designs. The IXP23XX network processor-based kit will be the third reference design kit from GDA around Intel network processor product lines, “said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services at GDA Technologies. “Our goal is to help Intel’s customers reduce cost, risk and time-to-market while they design products and systems around these processors.” “Network equipment vendors are always looking for ways to minimize development time while adding new services,” said Frank Schapfel, network processor product line marketing manager, Intel Infrastructure Processor Division. “The GDA PCI adapter board based on our new network processors will help our customers evaluate and begin the design of IXP23XX network processor-based systems that can support line rates up to 2 Gbps.” The new Reference Design Kit will support Embedded Linux operating system and GDA will also offer its embedded software services for porting other popular embedded operating systems. In addition, GDA will create a valuable debug and diagnostics software tool around the IXP23XX network processors. This tool will provide a basic boot monitor along with extensive diagnostic routines and loop-back tests and will allow customers to shorten debug and test cycle time. Intel network processor customers can also utilize the engineering design services offered by GDA for systems, boards, PCB layouts, SOC development, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs to customize this new GDA reference design for their specific access and edge applications. The GDA design package connects customers to the best design resources for their specific engineering, software development and validation requirements. GDA Technologies is an Affiliate Member with the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc., is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. Intel and Intel XScale are is a registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. NetEffect selects GDA Technologies Inc as the Design services partner for next generation Multi Gigabit Ethernet solution. San Jose, California – October 11, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing IP & Electronic Design Services (EDS) company today announced that it was selected by NetEffect to provide hardware design services for NetEffect’s next generation of high-performance, multi-gigabit Ethernet solutions. GDA will provide a variety of services starting with design verification. NetEffect’s solution is redefining high-performance data center server-to-server and server-to-storage communications. By providing a full implementation of iWARP enabled Ethernet, NetEffect is delivering uncompromising networking, storage and clustering performance on a single Ethernet fabric. “Based on their extensive IC design and implementation experience we felt GDA Technologies would successfully deliver the services we need on time. In addition to their background in ASIC design, GDA Technologies’ experience in Structured ASIC and full COT design were considerations in choosing them as a partner.” Said Terry Hulett, Vice President of Engineering. “We are extremely pleased to be selected as a design partner for NetEffect. Our proven methodologies and processes will help accelerate NetEffect’s product development“ said Ravi Thummarukudy VP and GM IC solutions , GDA Technologies inc . About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCIExpress, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About NetEffect NetEffect, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a network solutions company developing products to enable the next generation of high-performance, multi-gigabit Ethernet. NetEffect’s products allow Ethernet to easily scale to meet data center demands, using next-generation iWARP RDMA Ethernet that is fully compatible with the Ethernet infrastructure found in today’s data centers. NetEffect’s investors are TL Ventures, Austin Ventures, JatoTech Ventures, Infinity Capital, Granite Ventures, TI Ventures and Duchossois Technology Partners. Visit www.neteffect.com for more information. Agreement Expected to Bring in-demand HomePlug-Certified Chips to Market. NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ, August 24, 2004 – CDKnet.com, Inc. (OTCBB:CDKN) today announced that its Arkados Inc. subsidiary has entered into a collaboration agreement with GDA Technologies Inc., a leading hardware design firm. The two companies have agreed to work together to quickly bring HomePlug-certified silicon to market. Each company recognizes that a great synergy exists between them: Arkados’ team has accumulated years of experience in Powerline communications and System-on-chip design while GDA has excelled in building complex semiconductors for the leaders of the semiconductor industry. “We are very pleased to be working with GDA,” stated Oleg Logvinov, president and chief executive officer of Arkados. “Their engineering team has demonstrated remarkable results with previous projects, and they have a proven track record in the marketplace.” “Powerline communication holds an excellent promise, and it is exciting to be working in this space along with Arkados," said Ravi Thummarukudy, vice president and general manager of IC Design Solutions at GDA. "We were impressed with the Arkados design and felt that our team, having successfully served several leading electronic product companies, can make Arkados’design another success story.” Based on a worldwide specification from the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, powerline technology uses the power lines already in a home as a high-speed network, allowing digital devices, such as computers and consumer electronics, to connect to each other, and to the Internet. Mr. Logvinov also serves as president of the HomePlug Alliance. “GDA’s team will become an extension of our team and will bring additional resources and vast expertise into this project,” Logvinov said. “This collaboration will bring highly integrated, lower-cost powerline solutions to market for in-home data networks and for entertainment applications such as digital audio and video.” About Arkados Arkados Inc., based in North Plainfield, N.J., is a wholly owned subsidiary of CDKNet.com Inc. A home networking and broadband powerline communications company, Arkados’ powerline solutions enable high-speed digital transmission of voice, video, and data over the existing powerline infrastructure. Arkados’ highly integrated semiconductors are targeted for the home networking and broadband communications markets with a focus on application support. Using advanced design methodologies, Arkados is developing semiconductors that incorporate both standards-based and proprietary technologies. Arkados' designs for next-generation homenetworking products incorporate diverse functionality with a focus on the cost-effectiveness of final solutions, and are intended to get products to market quickly. Arkados' solutions support a rapid development environment through robust support of industry-standard Operating Systems and APIs, as well as comprehensive design documentation, software, training, and certification assistance. Arkados is a member of HomePlug Powerline Alliance (www.homeplug.org). For more information on Arkados, visit www.arkados.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCIExpress, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. ANDOVER, MA., June 14, 2004 – Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification, and GDA Technologies, GDA Technologies, a leader in Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDA), today announced the expansion of their partnership to address design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express and Advanced Switching Interconnect. Avery and GDA currently offer the GPEX IP family, a suite of comprehensive design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express Endpoint, Root Complex, Bridge, and Switch designs. The Advanced Switching verification solution is offered by Avery and GDA both independently and as part of GPEX. Avery verification IP solutions are offered as the PCI-Xactor product family. “GDA Technologies and Avery are committed to providing the industry’s leading Advanced Switching design and verification solution to our customers”, says Chilai Huang, president of Avery Design. “Leveraging the solid foundation we have developed together in PCI Express, we will bring the same high quality solutions and design services support that our customers have come to expect when designing for emerging standards.” “Our GPEX IP family continues to be the leading PCI-Express solution in the industry. Avery’s verification IP is an important part of our GPEX offering and we are excited to expand and strengthen our relationship for Advanced Switching,” said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP business at GDA. “Our combined solutions allow designers to have access to complete set of design and verification IPs for PCI-Express and Advanced Switching. Moreover, the offerings enable designers to minimizing their design risks, reduce time to market and development cost in implementing high-performance Advanced Switching based products.” About PCI Express and Advanced Switching Interconnect IP Core GDA Advanced Switching IP core (GPEX-AS) is a highly flexible and configurable port controller design targeted for both PCI-Express and Advanced Switching technology implementations in compute and communication applications. GPEX-AS is part of GDA’s PCI-Express (GPEX) family of IP solutions which includes End Point (GPEX-EP) and Root Complex (GPEX-RC) designs. GPEX-AS supports both PCI-Express and AS protocols. The controller architecture is tailored to address the needs of different market segments with highly configurable system PIs and support for PI-8, SLS, SQ, SDT and software PIs. About PCI-Xactor for Advanced Switching The PCI-Xactor for Advanced Switching Verification Solution is a complete verification solution consisting of Bus Function Model (BFM), SuperMonitor, and test suites and verification frameworks for functional verification of Advanced Switching components. The PCI-Xactor allows design and verification engineers to quickly and extensively test the entire functionality of their Advanced Switching compliant devices. Verification frameworks form complete testbench environments for endpoint, switch, and host/IO switch designs. Verification engineers just need to replace an Avery BFM with their design and begin running comprehensive verification tests. The PCI-Xactor environment leverages advanced verification techniques of Avery’s TestWizard product supporting complex data structures, transaction database, random generation, temporal property checking, and coverage analysis. Key Features * Complete set of fully functional BFMs and testbenches for every Advanced Switching component: Endpoints/Fabric Manager, N-Port Switch, Host/IO Switch Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at www.avery-design.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. ANDOVER, MA., June 14, 2004 – Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification, and GDA Technologies, a leader in Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDA), today announced MaxCov, a comprehensive PCI Express interface verification testsuite that validates compliance to the PCI Express Checklists and ensures device interoperability. MaxCov extends the PCI-Xactor PCI Express verification products from Avery Design Systems. MaxCov is offered by Avery and GDA both independently and as part of GPEX, a suite of comprehensive design and verification IP solutions for PCI Express Endpoint, Root Complex, Bridge, and Switch designs. “GDA Technologies is the market leader of high-quality PCI Express design and verification IP. We are pleased that our partnership and over 10 person years investment in compliance testing can now be made available to the broader market in the PCI-Xactor PCI Express solution.”, says Chilai Huang, president of Avery Design Systems. “GDA’s commitment to quality dictates that we apply rigorous verification standards”, said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP business at GDA. “MaxCov is the direct result of our combined efforts in implementing comprehensive verification of the GPEX core. Using Avery’s verification framework we can verify our GPEX core in different component configurations using highly reusable and customizable compliance tests offered in Verilog source code format.” Key Features * Tests developed in Verilog HDL About PCI-Xactor for PCI Express The PCI-Xactor for PCI Express Verification Solution is a complete verification solution consisting of Bus Function Model (BFM), SuperMonitor, and test suites and verification frameworks for functional verification of PCI Express components. The PCI-Xactor allows design and verification engineers to quickly and extensively test the entire functionality of their PCI Express compliant devices. Verification frameworks form complete testbench environments for endpoint, switch, and bridge designs. Verification engineers just need to replace an Avery BFM with their design and begin running comprehensive verification tests. The PCI-Xactor environment leverages advanced verification techniques of Avery’s TestWizard product supporting complex data structures, transaction database, random generation, temporal property checking, and coverage analysis. Key Features * Complete set of fully functional BFMs and testbenches for every PCI Express component: Endpoints, Root Complex, Switch, and PCI/PCI-X to PCI Express Bridge About PCI Express technology PCI Express technology is the new industry-standard I/O targeted to provide local connectivity across desktop, mobile, enterprise and communications platforms. PCI Express resides at the center of enterprise interconnect innovations anticipated across storage, networking, and clustering and workstations. Next-generation servers, utilizing PCI Express technology, will offer powerful and cost-effective computing platforms, scalable hardware building blocks, market-tested best-of-breed solutions, and enterprise-class reliability, availability, serviceability and manageability. About Avery Design Systems Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at www.avery-design.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California, May 11, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has licensed its 10 Gigabit (XGEMAC) and 1 Gigabit (GEMAC) Ethernet MAC IP cores to inSilica Inc., a leading supplier of customer specific SoC solutions. XGEMAC is industry’s first UNH_IOL compliance validated 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC IP core targeting LAN, MAN, WAN switches and routers, traffic aggregators, multiplexers and test equipments applications. inSilica will be incorporating the XGEMAC IP core into its next generation communication products. “GDA is highly regarded as an innovator and developer of high-speed interconnect Intellectual Property cores,” said Anant Agrawal, President & CEO of inSilica. “Combined with the rich-featured and highly flexible system validated XGEMAC IP core, the XGEMAC gives us full confidence that our products will be in compliance with the IEEE802.3ae specifications and allows us get to the market quickly.” “GDA is reshaping the IP landscape by offering system validated solutions, and service enable IP model to accelerate our customers’ products to market while reducing their development risks and cost,” said A.G. Karunakaran (AGK), President of GDA Technologies. “inSilica’s decision to license our solutions is an excellent endorsement for our IP model and we are excited to be working with them on their new generation of SOC products.” The XGEMAC adheres to the IEEE 802.3ae standard and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its simple, configurable and modular architecture is independent of application logic, PHY designs, implementation tools and most importantly target technologies. The XGEMAC provides XGMII interface to the line side and a flexible backend interface to the user logic on the system side. The XGEMAC has an extensive set of filtering capabilities based on source, destination, unicast, multicast, and broadcast addresses as well as being VLAN aware. The optional FIFO module supports configurable depths and watermarks with a variety of control options to support lossless flow control. The core also provides rate matching for OC-192 PHY components and a full set of statistics counters to support SNMP/RMON. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About inSilica Inc. inSilica is a fabless semiconductor company which delivers customer specific SoCs. inSilica maintains responsibility for all IP procurement, physical design, fabrication, and back-end assembly and test operations delivering to its customers fully tested packaged devices. inSilica advises its customers on the lowest risk and least cost path while ensuring the resulting design meets customer’s performance objectives. inSilica’s world class engineering team possesses extensive design experience in advanced process technologies in digital, analog/mixed signal & RF designs inSilica is a global company with operations in Santa Clara CA, Long Beach CA, as well as Bangalore, India. For additional information please visit the inSilica web site at: www.insilica.com. Smart Networks Developer Forum (SNDF), Dallas – April 26, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), announced the availability of its Reference Design Kit for the MPC8555 PowerQUICC™ III processor from Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc. GDA’s Reference Design Kit is based on the MPC8555, a communications processor with integrated security from Freescale’s PowerQUICC III family. GDA’s reference platform is a PCI form factor board that supports dual PCI interfaces and a full complement of other features, including a SODIMM slot for DDR memory, Flash memory, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and a serial port. The GDA Reference Design Kit will be initially available with Embedded Linux Board Support Package. Support for other Operation Systems will be available in the third quarter of 2004. The MPC8555 RDK is a new addition to GDA’s portfolio of Freescale product-based reference designs designed for the PowerQUICC III family of communication processors. With the MPC8555 RDK, embedded developers, OEMs and system integrators who have become accustomed to other PowerQUICC III family products can migrate to a security-enabled product, while leveraging previous application development experiences to shorten the ever-critical time-to-market metric. The MPC8555 processor with integrated security provides a powerful, highly integrated processing solution for a multitude of compute-intensive communications and networking applications, ranging from VPN and regional office routers to enterprise-class storage and Ethernet switching equipment to residential gateways and integrated access devices. The MPC8555 processor’s security engine supports the widely used DES, 3DES, MD-5, SHA-1, AES, and ARC-4 encryption algorithms. It also offers a public key accelerator and an on-chip random number generator. “GDA has been one of the early enablers of the PowerQUICC III family of processors with reference designs around Freescale’s flagship MPC8540 and MPC8560 processors. We are excited to follow up with a new MPC8555 based reference design kit. Freescale Semiconductor is the industry leader in the communications processor market, and GDA will continue to provide solutions around this industry-leading family of processors,” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President and GM of System and Software Design Business Unit at GDA. GDA is a member of Freescale’s Smart Networks Alliance Program (SNAP) in the capacity of a design services provider for hardware, software and reusable IP blocks. GDA is also a member of Freescale’s Design Alliance Program (DAP), which allows Freescale and its clients to utilize engineering design services offered by GDA in systems, boards, SoCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY GDA’s Reference Design Kit for the MPC8555 PowerQUICC III processor is now available. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. GDA Joins the RapidIO Trade Association San Jose, California – April 26, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the availability of GRIO (GDA RapidIO controller IP cores). GRIO IP cores are fully compliant with the Serial and Parallel RapidIO specifications and are targeted for embedded, communications and networking applications. The GRIO solution is derived from the RapidIO technology-based controller design licensed from Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc. GRIO IP is packaged as a highly configurable, reusable design and marketed worldwide by GDA as the GRIO RapidIO IP family. GDA also announced today that it has joined the RapidIO Trade Association and will become an active member of the association in accelerating its global deployment. “RapidIO interconnect architecture provides best-in-class features in performance, scalability and reliability, which are fundamental requirements for connectivity in high-speed applications. Our GRIO IP cores provide a set of features and capabilities that will foster new generations of innovative products based on RapidIO technology," said Prakash Bare, vice president of IP business at GDA. “We look forward to working with the RapidIO Trade Association to make the RapidIO fabric one of the compelling technology choices for backplane, board, mezzanine, and device interconnectivity.” “The RapidIO Trade Association is delighted that GDA Technologies is introducing its RapidIO IP cores to the market,” said Sam Fuller, president of the RapidIO Trade Association. “Customers are demanding RapidIO-based solutions for their next-generation embedded systems and proven IP offerings like GDA Technologies' GRIO IP core will find a large and ready market.” The RapidIO interconnect architecture, designed to be compatible with the most popular integrated communications processors, host processors, and networking digital signal processors, is a high-performance, packet-switched, interconnect technology. It addresses the high-performance embedded industry's need for reliability, increased bandwidth, and faster bus speeds in an intra-system interconnect. The RapidIO interconnect allows chip-to-chip and board-to-board communications at performance levels scaling to ten Gigabits per second and beyond. The GRIO IP cores adhere to the latest RapidIO specifications and are available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. The cores are designed for reuse, and their flexible backend interfaces enable easy integration into wide range of applications. GRIO’s configurable and modular architecture is optimized for latency, reliability, and small silicon footprint and is independent of application logic, PHY designs, and target technologies. Key features of the GRIO IP cores include: * Compliant with the latest RapidIO specifications * Supports Serial and Parallel RapidIO * Optimally supports Standard Cell, FPGA, and Gate Array * Provides roadmap to future RapidIO specification revisions. GDA offers a broad portfolio of foundry-independent IP cores available for embedded, networking, communications, and computing applications. As part of the IP licensing package, GDA provides an extensive set of documentation and customer support capabilities. The IP package consists of Verilog RTL code, a verification environment, test cases, and detailed design documentations. GDA offers a suite of design services for customization and integration of the IP cores into each customer’s ICs and FPGAs. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY The GRIO RapidIO IP cores and the IP validation platform are available now. For pricing and detailed information, please email at ip@gdatech.com, or visit www.gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About the RapidIO Trade Association. The RapidIO Trade Association and its global members drive the RapidIO® interconnect architecture. This ISO-certified, open-standard seamlessly enables the chip-to-chip, board-to-board, control, backplane and data plane interconnections needed in high-performance networking, communications and embedded systems. RapidIO-based products are shipping now, including silicon chips, boards and systems. Detailed information on the RapidIO specification, products, design tools, member companies, and membership is available at www.RapidIO.org. Semiconductor Selects GDA Technologies for Interconnect IP Cores San Jose, California, April 26, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced Freescale Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Inc., has licensed IP cores from GDA. The licensed IP cores are part of GDA’s interconnect IP portfolio and are planned to be integrated into Freescale’s next-generation semiconductor products. The licensed IP cores are high performance interconnect controller solutions optimized for bandwidth, latency, reliability, and silicon footprint for ASIC and FPGA implementations. “Freescale is known for pioneering a plethora of technologies to deliver some of the most revolutionary semiconductor products worldwide, and we are proud to be working with them,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Being selected by Freescale provides a strong endorsement and testament to our innovation and leadership in the high-speed interconnect IP market.” About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading Electronic Design Services (EDS) and Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) solution provider for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA specializes in designing ASICs, FPGAs, IPs, boards, SoCs, software and complete systems from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of desktop, server, and embedded computing, digital audio and video applications, Internet appliances, and voice and data networking applications. In the IP front, GDA has been the leading solution provider for fast interconnect technologies such as HyperTransport, PCI-Express, Ethernet and Advanced Switching with many licenses sold in compute, networking and communication markets. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. The Advanced Switching IP cores strengthens GDA’s PCI Express product family San Jose, California – February 17, 2004 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it will be offering a comprehensive set of Advanced Switching (AS) IP cores for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. The IP offerings include MAC, Data Link, and Transaction layers and all the defined Protocol Interfaces: SLS, SQ, SDT and PI-8. In addition, GDA provides complete suite of FPGA, boards and software design services for AS based products. Addition of these AS modules significantly strengthens GDA’s PCI Express (GPEX) IP family. These IPs target Native AS end point controllers, leaf and root bridges, AS switches and dual mode PCI Express Base/AS interface controllers. By using GDA’s reusable Advanced Switching IP cores and it’s related AS services system designers can greatly reduce development risks and time to market for their next generation products. “The ASI SIG has seen strong interest from leading companies to develop the building-block components required for the communications industry to transition from proprietary switched interconnects and data fabrics to the standards-based Advanced Switching switched interconnects,” said Rajeev Kumar, President, ASI SIG and Advanced Switching Initiatives manager at Intel. “We expect availability of key enabling tools such as IP cores, such as those from GDA, verification IP, FPGAs and silicon starting in 2004 to enable the roll-out of full systems by the end of 2005.” The Advanced Switching specification is an extension of PCI Express* interconnect technology. It adds advanced communications features to PCI Express technology in order to meet the requirements of the next generation of networking, storage and communications solutions. “We are dedicated to creating IP solutions with the highest-quality,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Our GPEX IP family, a comprehensive portfolio of Advanced Switching and PCI Express IP cores, give our customers complete confidence that their next-generation products will be compliant to the specifications and interoperable with other AS and PCI Express solutions, while maintaining an aggressive time-to-market schedule.” GDA is a member of the ASI SIG, Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture, PCISIG, and PICMG. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY The Advanced Switching IP cores will be available in Q4, 2004. The GDA PCI Express (GPEX) IP core, AS MAC and Data Link Layers are available now. For more information please email at ip@gdatech.com, or visit www.gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – February 5, 2004 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), recently announced that its Quality Management System has been certified as compliant with the International Standard ISO 9001:2000. GDA has certified its Printed Wiring Board Design Services Business Unit as compliant with the ISO standard. This achievement was a direct result of the organization working together in effectively developing and maintaining the Quality System in order to be certified. As a supplier of design services, GDA understands the importance of highest level of quality and customer satisfaction is vital to its success. A successful certification is a testament to GDA Technologies’ commitment to quality and to continuous improvement of its quality processes. GDA selected Bureau Veritas Quality International (BVQi) as its partner in this certification process. BVQi has certified over 30,000 companies around the world. BVQi (www.us.bvqi.com) played an important role in stressing the importance of continuous improvement and adding value at every stage of the Quality Management System. “GDA’s development and implementation of an effective quality management system demonstrates their commitment to customer satisfaction as a key element of business success,” said Dick Villacres, BVQIna Lead Assessor. GDA offers System, ASIC/FPGA and Printed Wiring Board design services for companies in broadband networking, appliances, server farm, wireless and high-end embedded computing space. Apart from design services, GDA proactively builds emerging technology soft core IP for integration into ASIC/FPGA product development for customer-specific solutions. “GDA’s core competency is providing value to its customer’s product development process by combining customer’s technology offering with GDA’s proven design flow and methodology. Therefore, it is important that GDA’s processes are governed by the highest quality standards to provide consistency in quality and continuous improvement. By adopting the world class ISO standard, GDA’s endorses it commitment to its customers, which is to deliver quality solutions and foster long term product development partnerships,” said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California, December 15, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that QLogic Corp., the company that powers storage area networks (SANs), has selected GDA for PCI Express cores to broaden the company’s ongoing PCI Express product development efforts. The GDA PCI Express Controller core, called GPEX, is integrated into QLogic Fiber Channel and iSCSI products for storage area networks. GPEX is a highly configurable core that is optimized for link utilization, latency, reliability, and silicon footprint for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. “GDA is a leader in the emerging market for PCI Express products,” said Frank Berry, vice president of Marketing, QLogic Corp. “GPEX technology is helping QLogic provide highly integrated PCI-Express products that deliver outstanding reliability and performance.” “QLogic is a leader in their market space and we are excited to work with them,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “The QLogic design-win is a validation of our PCI Express IP core quality, because it is noted throughout the industry that they select the best class of solutions for their products.” GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules. GDA is a member of the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture, Intel® Communications Alliance, PCISIG, Arapahoe Working Group and PICMG. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. SAN JOSE – October 21, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the release of its Reference Design Kit for the Intel® IXP2400 and Intel® IXP2800 network processors. The reference designs from GDA are based on industry standard form factors that will enable early designing of systems and equipment based on Intel network processors. GDA’s IXP2400 Reference Design Kit is a PCI adapter card compliant with the PCI Local Bus Specification, Version 2.2 interface for 64-bit / 66 MHz I/O Card where as the Reference Design Kit based on the IXP2800 is designed to serve as a PrPMC (Processor PCI Mezzanine Card) platform and is compliant with VME-Bus International Trade Association (VITA) 32 Standard. IXP2400 Reference Design Kit Features: The GDA Technologies IXP2400 Reference Design Kit features the fully programmable, high-performance Intel IXP2400 network processor. It has an OC48 Interface, two Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces and a full complement of other features, including a SODIMM slot for DDR memory, Flash memory, QDR-II SRAM and a Serial port for easy debugging. The GDA IXP2400 RDK comes with the Embedded Linux board support package. This design kit is an ideal platform for embedded developers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators who want a flexible development environment around the Intel IXP2400 network processor. The PCI interface enables the board to be used as a ready-made plug-in CPU module. The other features allow the board to be used as a control/management processor sub-system in a variety of system designs. The RDK can also serve as a bridge between OC and Ethernet interfaces. IXP2800 Reference Design Kit Features: The GDA Technologies’ IXP2800 reference design kit offers a rich feature set that includes QDR Memory, RDRAM modules and Flash Memory, thereby providing developers great flexibility to explore various development applications around the Intel IXP2800 network processor. The GDA IXP2800 RDK can be used to run various applications that have an aggregate bandwidth of 10 Gbps, with the help of an external daughter card through the SPI.4-2 interface. These applications range from SONET/SDH to POS and from ATM to Gigabit Ethernet. The PMC form factor makes this platform an ideal choice for System Integrators and OEMs to use as a plug-in network processor module on System controller cards, Mother boards, I/O peripheral boards, server blades and security servers. The board is also available with the Intel IXP2850 network processor. The GDA IXP2800 RDK comes with the Embedded Linux board support package. "The Intel IXP2400 and the Intel IXP2800 are the leading network processors in the industry today with their powerful performance and flexibility of programming. GDA has and will continue to invest a lot of its design and embedded software knowledge and expertise around Intel’s family of network processors, “said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services at GDA Technologies. “Our goal it to help Intel’s customers reduce cost, risk and time-to-market while they design products and systems around these processors.” At present Embedded Linux operating system is supported on both reference platforms. GDA will also offer its embedded software services for porting other popular embedded operating systems. In addition, GDA has also created a valuable debug and diagnostics software tool around these processors and is available with both platforms. This tool provides a basic boot monitor along with extensive diagnostic routines and loop-back tests. This tool will allow customers to shorten debug and test cycle time, which is a significant portion of the product development cycle. "The GDA reference design kits and electronic design services for the Intel IXP2400 and Intel IXP2800 network processors will provide equipment developers important options to help accelerate or sub-contract some of their product development," said Doug Davis, general manager of the Intel Network Processor Division. Intel network processor customers can also utilize the engineering design services offered by GDA in systems, boards, PCB layouts, and SOC development, ASICs FPGAs and IPs to customize this GDA reference design for their specific applications. The GDA design package connects Intel customers to the best design resources for their specific engineering, software development and validation requirements. Pricing and Availability GDA’s IXP2400 and IXP2800 Reference Design Kits are now available. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. GDA joins the Arapahoe Working Group to help lead Industry transition to Advanced Switching. San Jose, California – October 1, 2003 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has joined the Arapahoe Working Group (AWG) and is contributing to the development of the Advanced Switching (AS) specifications. GDA will also extend its system services including FPGA, boards and software designs for the next generation of Advanced Switching products based on ATCA platforms. The Advanced Switching specification is an extension of PCI Express* interconnect technology. It adds advanced communications features to PCI Express technology in order to meet the requirements of the next generation of networking, storage and communications solutions. “GDA's participation in Advanced Switching development is a natural progression of our leadership in providing services to PCI-Express based products," said Gopa Periyadan, vice president and GM of system and software business unit at GDA. "We look forward to offering our system services and helping to define the AS spec for the new architecture, which offers our networking and storage customers advanced communications features to meet the requirements of their next generation of products.” “GDA’s involvement in the Advanced Switching development, along with that of other companies, will contribute in accelerating the adoption and proliferation of PCI Express-based interconnect technologies,” said Rajeev Kumar, AWG chair and Advanced Switching technology manager, Intel Communications Group. “Advanced Switching Technology offers the networking and communication industries opportunities to architect exciting and innovative products, while providing cost, reusability of technology and time-to-market benefits.” GDA is a member of the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture, PCISIG, Arapahoe Working Group and PICMG. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics market segments. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Jose, California – September 16, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has enhanced its PCI Express IP family by offering PCI-Xactor from Avery Design Systems. PCI-Xactor is a comprehensive PCI Express verification IP solution for Endpoint, Root Complex, Switch and Bridge designs that will be included in GDA’s PCI Express IP core offerings. GPEX, the first PCI Express IP from GDA includes the PCI-Xactor verification solution. The PCI-Xactor is also available as standalone product through GDA. “GDA’s complete PCI Express IP solutions empower designers to implement exciting and innovative PCI Express-compliant products while significantly reducing design risks and verification time," said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Avery’s verification IP forms an important component of our PCI Express offerings. We are pleased to be working with Avery team to provide our PCI Express customers unparallel quality and robustness in verification front.” “GDA is a proven IP supplier and Avery is pleased to partner with GDA to streamline PCI Express IP implementation for our customers,” said Chris Browy, Vice President of Marketing at Avery Design Systems. “Together the companies will develop an integrated solution addressing PCI Express Endpoint, Root Complex, and Switch/Bridge implementations. Support for wide range of system topologies and PCI protocols enable customers to speed up compliance verification of GDA-based PCI Express designs.” The GDA PCI Express Endpoint IP core, called GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface with an optional DMA controller. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules. The PCI-Xactor Verification IP solution provides Verilog-based BFMs, transaction generation and protocol analyzer functions, checklist coverage, and a functional compliance test suite including test coverage. The functional compliance test suite is based on Intel® and PCI SIG test specifications. The Bus Exerciser provides a PCI transaction API for the generation of directed and random bus traffic. The PCI-Xactor Endpoint solution supports multiple root complexes and endpoints BFMs. The PCI-Xactor Switch/Bridge solution supports a switch BFM and a multi-link protocol analyzer to verification transaction ordering and completion rules. BFMs can be programmed to generate transactions or completions with normal or exceptional behaviors using over 20 different TL/DLL/PHY parameters. GDA and Avery Design Systems are members of the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express Architecture and PCISIG. Pricing and Availability For pricing and detailed information on GDA PCI Express IP cores and PCI-Xactor verification IP solutions, please email at ip@gdatech.com. About Avery Design Systems Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of intelligent HDL-based functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Our products include TesetWizard transaction-based testbench automation supporting native Verilog and VHDL, SimCluster parallel simulation which speeds simulations up to 10X using existing simulators, and PCI-Xactor Verification solutions for PCI, PCI-X, and PCI Express. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at http://www.avery-design.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources for the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA has developed many high performance IP cores for compute, and networking interfaces including HyperTransport, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2. Moreover, GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's concept to product. It has successfully developed IPs and products in the areas of high speed handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com. INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Jose, California – September 16, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced the GPEX, GDA PCI Express IP core, providing the computing, networking, and communications industries a significant enabler for development of silicon based products supporting PCI Express architecture. The GPEX is a rich featured and highly flexible core supporting endpoint, root complex, switch, and bridge applications. GPEX’s architecture is carefully tailored to optimize link utilization, latency, reliability, power consumption, and silicon footprint for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. “We are committed to providing our customers cost-effective, compliant and interoperable PCI Express IP products," said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. "Our extensive experience in developing high performance IP cores for compute and networking interfaces has played a significant role in creating GPEX which delivers unprecedented performance, configurability, and scalability features to a wide variety of applications.” "Wide availability of PCI Express IP from companies like GDA promotes faster time-to-market for companies developing PCI Express components,” said David Formisano, Ecosystem Initiatives Manager in the Communications Infrastructure Group at Intel. “This enables companies to migrate products to PCI Express more rapidly than was possible with previous technology transitions.” The GPEX adheres to the PCI Express 1.0a specifications and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. It supports endpoint, bridge, switch and root complex solutions. It includes MAC, data link and transaction layers. GPEX supports PIPE based PHY architecture and provides a flexible packet oriented user logic interface with an optional DMA controller. GPEX Configurable options include number of lanes (up to 16), number of virtual channels (up to 8), maximum payload size (up to 4K Bytes), and transmit retry/receive buffer size. GPEX provides flow control support for both directions and completely handles PCI Express ordering rules. GDA will be participating at IDF Fall 2003, September 16-18 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. GDA Technologies is an Affiliate Member with the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. For more information, please visit www.intel.com/go/ica. Pricing and Availability For pricing and detailed information on GPEX and the IP validation platform, please email at ip@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California, August 28, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property (IP) and Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced XGEMAC[Prakash1], the industry’s first UNH-IOL Compliance Validated 10 Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller, citing it as an important building block in the infrastructure needed to advance 10Gigabit Ethernet transport technology into Wide Area, Metro and Local Area Networks. The XGEMAC is a rich featured, highly configurable core and is fully compliant to the IEEE 802.3ae specification. The XGEMAC has successfully completed interoperability testing conducted at the University of New Hampshire (UNH-IOL) InterOperability Laboratory on July 25, 2003. “GDA’s highly flexible system validation platform, exhaustively validated XGEMAC design and their in-house Ethernet expertise allowed them to complete the conformance testing very quickly, in just a few days,” said Bob Noseworthy, 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium manager at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab. “GDA’s XGEMAC IP successfully completed all the 10 Gigabit Ethernet conformance tests and hence offers additional confidence to its future licensees that their products will be in compliance with IEEE 802.3ae specification. We are very happy to see GDA leading this new trend in IP business in which the vendors are going all the way in creating system implementations and compliance validation. It aligns very well with our charter at UNH IOL of fostering industry wide 10G Ethernet interoperability and compliance.” “The XGEMAC is a cost-effective, highly configurable and end-to-end system validated solution for switch, router and NIC designers,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies Inc. “Through the XGEMAC offering, we provide the system designers a 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC design that has low latency, high throughput, small foot print, and is ready-to-go for easy integration into ASIC and FPGA implementations.” The XGEMAC adheres to the IEEE 802.3ae standard and is available for both ASIC and FPGA implementations. Its simple, configurable and modular architecture is independent of application logic, PHY designs, implementation tools and most importantly target technologies. The XGEMAC provides XGMII interface to the line side and a flexible backend interface to the user logic on the system side. The XGEMAC has an extensive set of filtering capabilities based on source, destination, unicast, multicast, and broadcast addresses as well as being VLAN aware. The optional FIFO module supports configurable depths and watermarks with a variety of control options to support lossless flow control. The core also provides rate matching for OC-192 PHY components and a full set of statistics counters to support SNMP/RMON. “10 Gigabit Ethernet is the continuation of the Ethernet evolution within and beyond the enterprise and will enable end-to-end Ethernet network topologies. 10Gigabit Ethernet will speed the proliferation of Ethernet technology into MAN, WAN, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) markets due to its economics, simplicity and interoperability, “said AGK, President of GDA Technologies. “ The XGEMAC is a great contributor to the proliferation of Ethernet technology into the mass networking market.” Pricing and Availability The XGEMAC and the IP validation platform are available now. More information on these products and pricing details are available through ip@gdatech.com. About the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory. 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is a non-profit organization that offers comprehensive interoperability and conformance-based testing through 15 technology-based groups, called Consortiums. The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium, formed in 2000, offers testing based on the IEEE 802.3ae standard. Other Consortiums at the UNH-IOL include: ADSL, Bridge Functions, DOCSIS, Fast Ethernet, Fiber Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, IPv6, iSCSI, MPLS, Power over Ethernet, Routing, SHDSL, VDSL, and Wireless. Test solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, point-to-point and multi-system scenarios. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL website at: www.iol.unh.edu. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 2, 2003 – The HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, the nonprofit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, today announced that the Consortium’s Infrastructure Task Force has voted to adopt the HT8000 HyperTransport Compatibility Platform co-developed by member companies GDA Technologies, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. as a recommended HyperTransport compatibility test fixture. This platform, commercially available from GDA Technologies, incorporates the Consortium approved DUT (Device Under Test) Connector and can be used to verify the compliance of Integrated Circuits (ICs) with HyperTransport Caves, Tunnels, Switches, and Host Bridges to the approved HyperTransport Compliance Check List. HyperTransport technology is licensed on a royalty-free basis through the HyperTransport Technology Consortium and is a universal chip-to-chip I/O technology that provides high bandwidth, scalability, low-cost implementations and software compatibility with legacy PCI I/O technology. “This new Compatibility Platform from GDA Technologies is an important product for the HyperTransport-enabled market,” said Gabriele Sartori, President of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. “As the HyperTransport market grows rapidly from over 30 million ports shipped in 2003 to over 200 million ports in 2006, it is imperative that the consumers of HyperTransport-enabled devices and systems be assured that they will be compatible." “This will undoubtedly spur a wider adoption of HyperTransport technology,” said Brian Holden, Principal Engineer in PMC-Sierra’s MIPS Processor Division and Chair of the HyperTransport Consortium Technical Working Group. “Both semiconductor and system vendors are likely to find this Consortium recommended Compatibility Platform a useful tool for verifying the interoperability of HyperTransport-enabled devices.” Todd Hironaka, Chair of the HyperTransport Infrastructure Task Force, added, “This commercially available interoperability platform is very attractive for the HyperTransport community. GDA Technologies is providing a very important tool for system manufacturers to use to determine interoperability of devices.” The GDA Technologies HT8000 HyperTransport Compatibility Platform is a 12.25” by 6.5” printed circuit board with a Virtex-II Series FPGA from Xilinx, multiple HyperTransport I/O links and two types of specialized interfaces. One is the HyperTransport Compatibility Program defined device-under-test or DUT connector, to which a HyperTransport device or subsystem can be linked to the HT8000 board. The second is a test fixture socket compatible with the FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport Analysis Probe for the Agilent Logic Analyzer. FuturePlus, Agilent and Xilinx are HyperTransport Consortium members. “The HT 8000 platform is an important new offering from GDA’s HyperTransport program. It allows semiconductor and system companies to ensure their HyperTransport based ICs are interoperable with other HT enabled devices,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA Technologies. “Our unmatched HyperTransport offerings are designed to enable our customers get to the market quickly while reducing their development risks and cost.” "The availability of a compatibility test platform will be well received by HyperTransport designers", said Ron DiGiuseppe, Sr. Marketing Manager for IP Cores at Xilinx. "It will help accelerate compatibility testing and enable rapid deployment of HyperTransport interconnects. Xilinx is pleased to have worked with GDA Technologies and the HyperTransport Consortium during the design and development of the board." With over 40 HyperTransport technology-based products and services already announced and the specification’s preservation of software investments that already exist with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) today, HyperTransport technology has established a significant footprint in a number of key market segments. The HyperTransport product portfolio includes tunnel, bridge, graphic and switch chips from AMD, ALi, Alliance Semiconductor, NVIDIA, PLX Technology, and VIA Technologies; programmable-logic devices from Altera and Xilinx; processors and security processors from AMD, Broadcom, Cavium, Hifn, PMC-Sierra, and Transmeta; IP cores from Altera, GDA Technologies, Nurlogic, and Xilinx; BIOS software from AMI and Phoenix Technologies; verification and test tools from 0-In Design Automation, Agilent, FuturePlus, GDA Technologies, Schlumberger, Teradyne and TransEDA; and training courses and a book from Mindshare. For a full product listing, please visit: http://www.hypertransport.org/featuredproducts/products.html. Pricing and Availability The HT8000 is now available now from GDA Technologies. The platform supports Xilinx Virtex- II devices ranging from 34 million system -gates to 68 million system -gates. FPGAs The HT8000 is available with Embedded Linux. Pricing details are available through GDA sales at info@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport universal chip-to-chip interconnect technology replaces and improves upon existing multilevel buses used in systems such as personal computers, servers and embedded systems while maintaining software compatibility with PCI I/O technologies. HyperTransport technology delivers a maximum 12.8 GB/second aggregate bandwidth using easy to manufacture dual, unidirectional point-to-point links. Enhanced 1.2V low-power LVDS signaling and dual-data rate data transfers deliver increased data throughput while minimizing signal crosstalk and EMI. HyperTransport interconnect technology employs a packet-based data protocol to eliminate many sideband signals (control and command signals) and supports asymmetric, variable width data paths. About the HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a non-profit organization managed by its members that is dedicated to promoting HyperTransport technology as an open, freely available industry specification for high bandwidth chip-to-chip communications. Membership in the consortium is open to any industry participant for a modest administrative fee and includes the rights to royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology Intellectual Property. More information can be obtained from the HyperTransport Technology Consortium website at www.hypertransport.org. Advanced Micro Devices, Alliance Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta are promoter members and comprise the Executive Committee of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Companies interested in HyperTransport technology are invited to join the consortium. Consortium members pay modest annual dues and receive a royalty-free license to use the HyperTransport IP of the consortium members, gain access to additional technical documentation and may attend consortium meetings and events. To become a member, visit the consortium Web site at www.hypertransport.org. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. The HyperTransport Consortium, the non-profit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, has adopted the HT8000 for its HyperTransport compatibility testing program. SAN JOSE, CA – June 2, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Electronic Design Services, and Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX), the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions, today announced the availability of the HT8000, the industry’s first HyperTransport Compatibility Test Platform. The HT8000 was co-developed by GDA and Xilinx in support of the HyperTransport Consortium’s Compatibility Program (http://hypertransport.org/compatibility.html). The HT8000 allows semiconductor and system companies to accelerate the development and deployment of their HyperTransport based systems by streamlining design-in, test, validation, and compatibility testing of HyperTransport-based devices. The HyperTransport Consortium, the non-profit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, has adopted the HT8000 for its HyperTransport compatibility testing program. The HT8000 is a powerful tool for designers tasked with conforming to the latest HyperTransport specification and delivering silicon and systems to market quickly and successfully. The HyperTransport compatibility platform is equipped with a Virtex- II™ FPGA from Xilinx and provides two 16-bit HyperTransport interfaces to allow testing of host, tunnel, switch or cave based HyperTransport configurations. The platform also provides a 16-bit SPI-4.2 and Gigabit Ethernet interface, extending its use to validate cores that bridge HyperTransport, SPI-4.2 and Gigabit Ethernet technologies. The management portion includes a CPU subsystem using a Motorola MPC8245 PowerQUICC II processor supported by 8MB Flash Memory, 128 MB SDRAM, and a serial port. The HyperTransport Interfaces use male and female connectors from Samtec (QSE and QTE connectors), that are compliant with the HyperTransport Consortium connector definition for Device-Under-Test, allowing any HyperTransport device or subsystem to be linked to the HT8000. Theis HT8000 platform provides a test fixture socket compatible with the FuturePlus Systems HyperTransport Analysis probe for the Agilent Logic Analyzer. GDA also provides a full Embedded Linux Operating System Port kit on this platform. “The HyperTransport compatibility platform will help the rapid deployment of HyperTransport technology by Solution Providers and OEMs in the market place. We are delighted to be the first companies to offer this unique platform in the market and to win the endorsement of the HyperTransport consortium,” said Gopa Periyadan, vice president and General Manager of System and Software Design Business Unit at GDA. “Xilinx is using the HT8000 platform for hardware validation and interoperability testing of our own HyperTransport cores. The platform is an ideal tool to demonstrate interoperability with industry leaders, provides us with a great tool to shorten our validation cycles thereby reducing customer time to market,” said Ron DiGiuseppe, senior marketing manager of System Interfaces in the IP Solutions Division at Xilinx. GDA has worked closely with Xilinx and the HyperTransport Cconsortium during the definition and design stages of The HT8000. GDA will be responsible for production and support of the HT8000. Both GDA and Xilinx are members of the HyperTransport Consortium. GDA is a leading worldwide provider of comprehensive set of HyperTransport IP cores. GDA HyperTransport IP offerings include Host, Bridge, Tunnel and Cave. These re-useable IP blocks enable networking, cCommunication, embedded applications, and PC companies to easily integrate HyperTransport I/O technology in their high-performance IC designs. As part of the IP licensing package, GDA provides extensive set of documentations and support to minimize a customer’s time to market, risk, and development costs. Additional information about GDA’s HyperTransport IP cores and intellectual property licensing program is available at http://hypertransport.gdatech.com. Pricing and Availability The HT8000 is now available now from GDA Technologies. The platform supports Xilinx Virtex- II devices ranging from 34 million system -gates to 68 million system -gates. FPGAs The HT8000 is available with Embedded Linux. Pricing details are available through GDA sales at info@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Xilinx, Inc. Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available at www.xilinx.com. Altera Customers Now Have Access to GDA Technologies' Extensive Expertise in Embedded, Networking, and Consumer Electronics Applications San Jose, Calif., May 5, 2003 — Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that GDA Technologies has joined the Altera Consultants Alliance Program (ACAP®). As the newest ACAP member, San Jose-based GDA Technologies will provide Altera customers with extensive design expertise in developing complete system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions, extending Altera's reach into embedded, networking, high-end consumer electronics, digital signal processing (DSP), and wireless local area network (LAN) markets. GDA Technologies' intellectual property (IP) portfolio is optimized for Altera's latest FPGAs, which include Stratix™, Cyclone™, and Stratix GX devices. "By partnering with GDA Technologies, our customers can now enjoy reduced design cycles and lower costs and risks," said Andrew Byers, Bay Area sales director at Altera. "Additionally, GDA Technologies' extensive IP portfolio, which includes HyperTransport™, SPI-4.2, and 10-Gigabit Ethernet MAC cores, are also available to help designers customize their SOPC designs." "GDA Technologies' extensive design experience coupled with Altera's leading-edge programmable logic technology provides customers with a complete solution that will achieve their time-to-market goals," said Wes Schropp, director of sales for Northern California at GDA Technologies. About ACAP The Altera Consultants Alliance Program provides Altera customers with easy access to a worldwide network of certified design consultants with expertise in Altera's SOPC solutions. Additionally, ACAP consultants specialize in niche areas, which makes them profoundly effective at solving specific problems and facilitating time-to-market needs. Altera provides its ACAP members with on-going training to keep them up-to-date with Altera's leading-edge SOPC solutions. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Altera Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the world's pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. Combining programmable logic technology with software tools, intellectual property, and technical services, Altera provides high-value programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide. More information is available at www.altera.com. Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera logo, specific device designations and all other words that are identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. HyperTransport is a trademark of the HyperTransport Consortium. All other product or service names are the property of their respective holders. San Jose, Calif. – May 6, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced that Cray, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) has licensed GDA’s HyperTransport IP cores for the development of its Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer code named “Red Storm”. The licensed IP cores are HyperCave and HyperCaveLite for ASIC and FPGA integration, respectively. GDA’s HyperTransport IP cores provide a narrow, low power, and extremely fast point-to-point link between the devices in the system. They support 16-bit data width with clock speeds of up to 800MHz, and Double Data Rate (DDR) memory signaling, providing aggregate throughput of 51.2Gigabits/s per link. “GDA HyperTransport IP offerings are a good match for the demanding requirements of our Red Storm supercomputer development," said Brian Koblenz, Cray's Vice President, Special Projects. "We are very impressed with the quality, exceptional performance and feature sets of GDA's IP cores.” Cray has been awarded a $90 million contract by Sandia National Laboratories to develop the Red Storm supercomputer. Red Storm will be based on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture with peak performance of 40 trillion calculations per second (40 teraOPS) using two calculations/clock cycle, and scalability to hundreds of teraOPS. The supercomputer will be seven times faster than Sandia Lab’s current supercomputer and is scheduled to be operational in 2004. “Cray’s licensing of our HyperTransport IP cores is further testament to the tremendous and ongoing acceptance of GDA’s IP offerings to the industry”, said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA. “Companies that require high performance IPs and demand the best in quality and total customer satisfaction can expect to find them in GDA.” Red Storm is expected to be powered by 10,000 AMD Opteron™ processors. The advanced features of the AMD Opteron processor make it ideal for this type of deployment: 32-bit and 64-bit capability, integrated DDR memory controller and HyperTransport technology links. These features can increase overall system performance by removing I/O bottlenecks, which in turn improves bandwidth and reduces latency. The upcoming AMD Opteron processor is designed to provide simultaneous 32- and 64-bit high-performance computing, giving customers the flexibility and performance required to run demanding enterprise applications. “To have renowned organizations such as Cray and Sandia place their trust in us is a tremendous endorsement of the upcoming AMD Opteron processor and demonstrates AMD’s strength in the high performance computing market,” said Marty Seyer, vice president of Server Business Segment for AMD’s Computation Products Group. “The architectural advantages of the AMD Opteron processor have allowed us to meet the stringent processor design requirements for a world-class supercomputer.” About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Cray Inc. Cray is the premier provider of supercomputing solutions for customers' most challenging scientific and engineering problems. Visit www.cray.com for more information about the company. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Other product and company names may be trademarks of their respective companies. San Jose, Calif. – May 6, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced that it has become a member of the IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program. The Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program was established last year by IBM to enable its customer utilization of IP cores that have been proven in IBM Microelectronics' leading ASIC manufacturing technologies. Six GDA IP cores are available through IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program including HyperTransport Cave, Tunnel, Host and Bridge, 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC, and SPI4.2 link controller. Information on these IP cores is available on IBM and GDA web sites. "Solutions that are part of our IP collaboration program can address our customers' critical need for high quality, high performance IP," said Tom Reeves, Vice President of ASIC Product Group at IBM Microelectronics. "As SOCs increase in complexity, the requirement for IP intensifies, and thus extensive experience in networking IP, from companies like GDA, can add value to our Blue Logic Program and allow our customers to devote their time to creating competitive products on time and on budget." "We are very pleased to be a member of the IBM Blue Logic IP Collaboration Program,” said Prakash Bare, Vice President of IP Business at GDA. “IBM is one of the world’s top semiconductor manufacturers, and we take pride in availability of our HyperTransport, 10 GEthernet MAC and SPI4.2 IP cores through the IP Collaboration Program. Our broad range of IP solutions and services will be available to IBM’s customers to dramatically reduce RTL development time for complex SOC solutions. We look forward to working closely with IBM." About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. IBM's Shared University Research (SUR) program provides computing equipment and research collaborations to institutions around the world for advanced research projects in areas of mutual interest and benefit, including: Grid Computing, Autonomic Computing, Life Sciences and Deep Computing. The SUR awards also connect top academic researchers with IBM Research personnel, and representatives from product-development and solution-provider communities. IBM awards about 50 SUR grants per year worldwide. For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com. About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport universal chip-to-chip interconnect technology replaces and improves upon existing multilevel buses used in systems such as personal computers, servers and embedded systems while maintaining software compatibility with PCI I/O technologies. HyperTransport technology delivers a maximum 12.8 GB/second aggregate bandwidth using easy to manufacture dual, unidirectional point-to-point links. Enhanced 1.2V low-power LVDS signaling and dual-data rate data transfers deliver increased data throughput while minimizing signal crosstalk and EMI. HyperTransport interconnect technology employs a packetized data protocol to eliminate many sideband signals (control and command signals) and supports asymmetric, variable width data paths. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. The HyperTransport Tunnel, Cave, Host and Bridge Link Controllers Accelerate the Development of ICs and FPGA-based Systems San Jose, Calif. – May 6, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of HyperTransport IP cores for ASIC integration and FPGA-based solutions. The IP offerings include two sets of HyperTransport Tunnel, Cave, Bridge, and Host link controllers. One set is optimized for ASIC implementations and one for FPGA integration. With its products and its Electronic Design Services, GDA Technologies enables system designers for networking, communications, storage, and high performance systems to greatly reduce development time by using a set of re-useable HyperTransport IP cores and its related services. GDA Technologies Electronic Design Services include designing and developing software and hardware validation platforms and performing interoperability testing where conforming to the latest HyperTransport specification is critical to getting silicon and systems to market quickly and successfully. “This is an impressive achievement for GDA and a significant move forward for the HyperTransport industry” said Gabriele Sartori, President of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. “Providing complete library of HyperTransport IP cores enables designers to minimize design risks, reduce time to market and development cost in implementing high-performance HyperTransport technology based products.” "These new HT IP products are particularly significant to larger customers, because they will make it simpler to add HyperTransport technology to custom ASICs or FPGAs,” adds Jim Turley, senior analyst at Silicon Insider. “Now large OEMs can develop inexpensive FPGA products, and then perhaps migrate them into HyperTransport-enabled custom ASIC devices." “GDA understands the challenges of designing bandwidth-intensive solutions and has created a library of IP cores to assist ASIC and system designers accelerating their development time” said AG Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies. “We are the first company to offer a full family of HyperTransport IP cores and its associated services. It is an excellent demonstration of our capabilities as an IP and Electronic Design Service provider.” HyperTransport technology is an advanced high-speed, low latency, and point-to-point link for integrated circuits. HyperTransport provides a universal connection that is designed to reduce the number of buses within the system, provide a high-performance link for embedded applications, and enable highly scalable multiprocessing systems. HyperTransport enables the chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other at a much higher speed than the existing technologies. The HyperTransport IP cores from GDA are fully compliant to the latest HyperTransport specification. They are designed for reuse and their flexible backend interfaces allow them to be easily integrated into wide range of applications. Some of the key features of the HyperTransport IP cores are: Compliant to the latest HyperTransport I/O Link Specification Offers complete HyperTransport topologies: • Cave Supports wide range of bandwidth: 6.4 – 51.2 Giga bits/s aggregated bandwidth Optimized for: • Standard Cell Have performed extensive interoperability testing with HT PHY partners: • IBM Provides roadmap to future HyperTransport specification revisions GDA has a broad portfolio of foundry independent IP cores available for Computing, Networking, and Signal Processing applications. As part of the IP licensing package, GDA provides extensive set of documentations and customer support. The IP package consists of Verilog RTL code, Verification environment, Test cases as well as detailed design documentations. In addition to the IP library, GDA offers a suite of design services for customization and integration of the IP cores into customer’s ICs and FPGAs. For additional information about GDA’s IP cores and intellectual property licensing program, please visit www.gdatech.com or email to ip@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport universal chip-to-chip interconnect technology replaces and improves upon existing multilevel buses used in systems such as personal computers, servers and embedded systems while maintaining software compatibility with PCI I/O technologies. HyperTransport technology delivers a maximum 12.8 GB/second aggregate bandwidth using easy to manufacture dual, unidirectional point-to-point links. Enhanced 1.2V low-power LVDS signaling and dual-data rate data transfers deliver increased data throughput while minimizing signal crosstalk and EMI. HyperTransport interconnect technology employs a packetized data protocol to eliminate many sideband signals (control and command signals) and supports asymmetric, variable width data paths. About the HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a non-profit organization managed by its members that is dedicated to promoting HyperTransport technology as an open, freely available industry standard for high bandwidth chip-to-chip communications. Membership in the consortium is open to any industry participant for a modest administrative fee and includes the rights to royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology Intellectual Property. More information can be obtained from the HyperTransport Technology Consortium website at www.hypertransport.org. HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO – April 23, 2003 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), announced the release of its Reference Design Kit for the Motorola MPC8540 PowerQUICC™ III processor at the 2003 Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. GDA’s Reference Design Kit is based on the MPC8540, a new, highly integrated, high-density processor from Motorola’s PowerQUICC III family. GDA’s reference platform is a RMC and PMC form factor board that supports both RapidIO™ technology and PCI interfaces and a full complement of other features, including a SODIMM slot for DDR memory, Flash memory, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a fast Ethernet port and a serial port. The GDA Reference Design Kit comes with the Embedded Linux board support package. The design kit is an ideal platform for embedded developers, OEMs and system integrators who want a flexible development environment around Motorola’s PowerQUICC III processor. The RapidIO and PCI interfaces enable the board to be used as a ready-made plug-in CPU module on a cPCI board or base board. The full complement of other features also allows the board to be used as a control/management processor sub-system in a variety of system designs. Motorola’s MPC8540 is the industry's first RapidIO technology-enabled processor. It addresses the needs for higher compute density and lower system cost by balancing processor performance with I/O system throughput, thereby making it a powerful control element for network routers and switches, storage subsystems, network appliances, and print and imaging devices. “Motorola’s PowerQUICC III family of processors showcases Motorola’s superiority in communication processor technology with its rich feature set, high integration and powerful performance. GDA is proud to introduce the MPC8540-based Reference Design Kit and be one of the early supporters of the PowerQUICC III family,” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Business Unit at GDA. “Leveraging the PowerPC™ instruction set architecture and its extensive PowerQUICC processor-based design expertise, GDA has created a valuable development platform around Motorola’s next-generation communications processor for Motorola’s customers,” said Raj Handa, Director, PowerQUICC Business Development and Marketing at Motorola. “Customers can use this flexible platform to develop solutions around the MPC8540 processor, thereby simplifying system design and reducing time to market.” GDA worked in close collaboration with Motorola over the past few months to develop the MPC8540 processor-based solution. GDA is a member of Motorola’s Smart Networks Alliance Program (SNAP) in the capacity of a design services provider for hardware, software and reusable IP blocks. GDA is featured in the 2002 and 2003 Edition of the Digital DNA Motorola Smart Networks Resource Guide. GDA is also a member of Motorola Design Alliance Program (MDAP), which allows Motorola and its clients to utilize engineering design services offered by GDA in systems, boards, SoCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs. Pricing and Availability GDA’s Reference Design Kit for the MPC8540 PowerQUICC III processor is available third quarter of 2003. Pricing details are available through GDA Sales at sales@gdatech.com. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. San Jose, California – December 14, 2002 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has relocated its worldwide headquarters to a larger facility in San Jose to accommodate continued company growth. GDA’s new facility is located at 1010 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley, in close proximity to many of its key customers, partners and vendors. GDA’s new office is very close to the major highways I-880 and I-101, and Montague Expressway. GDA’s new facility will house its Corporate Headquarters, IC Design Services, System and Software Design Services and IP Solutions groups. GDA San Jose has over 70 engineers with high speed communications system design, FPGA and IC design, and embedded firmware and device driver expertise. With over 160 engineers worldwide, GDA is one of the leading companies in the engineering design services arena. GDA offers system, ASIC/FPGA, SOC, board and low-level software design services. Apart from these services, GDA proactively builds and licenses emerging technology soft core IP for integration into ASIC/FPGA products. “With this move, GDA Technologies has positioned itself for continued growth in size, staff and services offered, enabling GDA to better serve its clients. We would like to thank our clients for their continued support, and we look forward to many more years of success with them,” said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. Founded in 1996, GDA has grown steadily by developing expertise and intellectual properties in multiple design disciplines to become a key player in the electronics industry. GDA has very strong partnerships with many market leaders in this industry like NEC, Motorola, Intel and Xilinx. GDA recently ranked on the 2002 Inc 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America published by Inc Magazine. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. MELVILLE, N.Y.--Nov. 20, 2002--Arrow Electronics Inc. (NYSE: ARW) today announced that it has selected GDA Technologies Inc. (GDA) as a member of its ACES Design Services Partner Program. The agreement enables Arrow Electronics to supply its customers with complete access to the full complement of design services offered by GDA, including: systems, boards, embedded software, PCB layout, SOC development, ASICs, FPGAs and licensable IP cores. Passing Arrow's rigorous selection process means GDA has been pre-screened, qualified, and certified by Arrow Electronics. "GDA is proud to be a part of this unique program to help serve Arrow's customers better. By banking on GDA's extensive design experience and Arrow's customer reach and support, customers will achieve greatly reduced time-to-market goals," said A G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies. The ACES program is designed to match Arrow's customers with the best design resources for their specific product development and validation requirements. The ACES program brings a higher level of focus and talent to customers while eliminating time spent on the selection process--helping accelerate their investigation to design time frame. Arrow's customers will benefit from GDA's years of extensive hardware, software and design validation expertise in Embedded, Networking and High-end Consumer design challenges. "We're extremely excited to have GDA Technologies as part of the ACES family," said Jim Caraccio, Manager, Arrow ACES. "GDA's intellectual property and engineering services portfolio is unparalleled, and their multiple design locations give them the competitive advantage that our customers are looking for. GDA has over 6 years of expertise and over 150 engineers worldwide to resolve challenges posed by high speed communications system design, high density FPGA and IC design, and the varied needs of embedded firmware and device driver development. By offering these services under one roof, along with its suite of IP cores, some of which include a Hyper-transport, a 10G MAC and a SPI4 core, GDA allows customers to maximize their return on investment, by reducing cost and shortening their time to market cycle. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Arrow Electronics Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry. Headquartered in Melville, New York, Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and 175,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and value-added resellers through more than 200 sales facilities and 23 distribution centers in 40 countries and territories. All names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. San Jose, California - November 18, 2002 – GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has been ranked #284 on the 2002 Inc 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc Magazine. Inc Magazine unveiled the Inc 500 list in their October 15, 2002 issue and online at www.inc.com. Inc 500 companies are selected based on private ownership, exponential growth for the past 5 years, minimum 5-year operating history that included increase in 2001 sales over 2000 and sales of at least $200,000 in 1997. The rankings are based on a company’s percentage increase in sales from 1997 through 2001. Companies that have made this list in the past include today's some of the leading Fortune 500 companies. GDA achieved its rapid growth of 811% from 1997-2001 without outside investment and has proved to be a leader in providing to its customers diversified range of electronic design services in a cost effective and time to market environment. GDA offers system, ASIC/FPGA, SOC and board design services for companies in broadband networking, appliances, server farm, wireless and high-end embedded computing space. Apart from design services, GDA proactively builds emerging technology soft core IP for integration into ASIC/FPGA product development for customer-specific solutions. GDA Technologies is the only company in the electronic design services arena to feature on this list. “GDA is thankful to its customers and partners, who have supported GDA over the years and continue to do so. In this economic climate, repeat customer engagement is one the primary reasons for the hyper-growth that GDA is able to sustain. GDA’s provides value by enhancing customer’s technology offering, combining it with GDA’s proven design flow and methodology, thereby fostering a long term product development partnership,” said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA has over 6 years of expertise and over 150 engineers worldwide to resolve challenges posed by high speed communications system design, high density FPGA and IC design, and the varied needs of embedded firmware and device driver development. By offering these services under one roof, along with its suite of IP cores, some of which include a Hyper-transport, a 10G MAC and a SPI4 core, GDA allows customers to maximize their return on investment, by reducing cost and shortening their time to market cycle. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Inc. Founded in 1979,Boston-based Inc. magazine is owned by Gruner + Jahr USA, one of the top-ranked magazine publishers in the U.S., reaching one of the largest readerships in America. In addition to Inc, Gruner + Jahr USA publishes, Child, Family Circle, Fast Company, Fitness, Inc, Parents, and YM. G+J USA is 25.1% owned by the Jahr Group and 74.9% owned by Bertelsmann AG, the largest privately held and the fifth largest media company overall in the world with yearly revenues at $17.86 billion. The premier magazine for growing companies, may be accessed online at www.inc.com All names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. San Jose, California - September 9, 2002 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it is developing an Intel® IXP2800 reference design platform with Diagnostics, Embedded Linux software and Microcode framework for key applications. The reference design will enable early designing of systems and equipment based on the new family of high performance Intel network processors.GDA’s prior experience and expertise around IXP1200 based hardware design and micro-code development will help GDA’s customers to use this platform and develop new products around Intel IXP2800network processors . The reference design will be initially be available on a PCI/PCIX form-factor cards.The design consists of Intel IXP2800 network processor subsystem with 32MB of Flash and 128MB of RDRAM. To provide network connectivity, one Gigabit port and a configurable OC3 or OC12 port will be designed into the board hardware. In addition for manageability, bring-up support and software development, one RS232 and one 10/100 Ethernet ports will also be available on the design package. Intel's customers can also utilize the engineering design services offered by GDA in systems, boards, PCB layouts, and SOC development, ASICs FPGAs and IPs to customize this reference design for their specific applications. That way, the design package connects Intel’s customers to the best design resources for their specific engineering, software development and validation requirements. Around this hardware design, GDA will offer its embedded software services for porting popular embedded operating systems. Initially, Embedded Linux operating system will be supported on this reference platform. GDA has mastered the programming techniques around several sophisticated chipsets and Framers. Leveraging its extensive embedded expertise, GDA has also created a valuable debug and diagnostics software tool. This tool provides a basic boot monitor along with extensive diagnostic routines and loop-back tests.This tool will allow customers to shorten debug and test cycle time, which is a significant portion of the product development cycle. GDA’s Diagnostics Software Tool will also be offered on the IXP2800 reference platform. In addition, GDA will create a microcode development framework for key vertical applications around Gigabit Ethernet technology in Security and Storage area Networks, which will have a standard interface to popular embedded operating systems. Initial framework will provide capabilities to seamlessly transport data through the fast paths from one microengine to other or to the NPU external interface. Intel's customers can utilize GDA’s extensive hardware, software and design validation expertise in Embedded, Networking and high-end consumer design challenges. GDA has designed several platforms around a variety of family of microprocessors and network processors for the last three years. "GDA has been investing a lot of our design and embedded software talent around network processors in general and Intel IXP family of network processors in particular. We are fully committed to stay focused on the IXP family and are proud to announce the forthcoming availability of this reference platform from GDA. By banking on GDA’s extensive design experience and Intel’s customer reach and support, customers will greatly benefit from this platform," said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services at GDA Technologies. "GDA reference design platform and electronic design services for the IXP2800 network processor will provide equipment developers important options to help simplify and cut the cost of product development," said Doug Davis, general manager of the Intel Network Processor Division. GDA has enabled a variety of designs for OEMs and System Integrators in Network Security Systems, Voice-over-IP platforms, Storage Area Networking systems, based Single board computers and several networking switching and routing market segment. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. All names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. San Jose, California - July 22, 2002 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that Motorola has formally selected it as a member of the prestigious Motorola Design Alliance Partner Program. The membership, which is effective immediately, will allow Motorola and its clients to utilize engineering design services offered by GDA in Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs. The program will also enable Motorola to provide GDA with third party design tools, technical support and a collaborative environment to help serve its clients better. Motorola’s customers can utilize GDA’s six years of extensive hardware, software and design validation expertise based around the Motorola PowerPC family of microprocessors. GDA has designed several platforms around this family of processors, which include the high performing MPC7450, MPC7451, MCP7455, the highly integrated MPC8240, MPC8245, the communication processor MPC8260 and the management processor MPC860. Chipsets used around the PowerPC family of processors include Marvell’s Discovery, Discovery II and Mailogic’ Atricia S. GDA offers immense embedded software expertise in PowerPC based designs. GDA’s embedded software team can port Embedded Linux or VxWorks to customer platforms and deliver BSPs with custom device drivers wherever necessary. GDA has mastered the programming techniques around the UPM interfaces in some of the highly integrated PowerPC CPU’s. Leveraging its extensive PowerPC based design expertise, GDA has created a valuable debug and diagnostics software tool. This tool provides a basic PPC boot monitor along with extensive diagnostic routines and loop-back tests. It also provides file download and execute capabilities along with register-level debug capabilities. This tool will allow customers to shorten debug and test cycle time, which is a significant portion of the product development cycle. “GDA is proud to be a part of this prestigious program to help serve Motorola’s customers better. By banking on GDA’s extensive design experience and Motorola’s support, customers will achieve greatly reduced time-to-market goals,“ said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services. GDA has enabled a variety of designs for OEMs and System Integrators based around the PowerPC family, which include a Voice-over-IP platform, Storage Area Networking systems, a cPCI based Single board computer using dual MPC7450s, a Network Cross Connect Platform, Switches and Routers. About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. About Motorola, Inc. Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2001 were $30 billion. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com . All names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. HyperTransport Cave and HyperTransport Host IP cores from GDA significantly speeds the design of Hifn's most advanced devices San Jose, Calif. – May 7,2002 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced the licensing of its HyperTransport Cave and HyperTransport Host Intellectual-property (IP) cores to Hifn™ (NASDAQ: HIFN). The cores will be used in Hifn’s most advanced compression, encryption, and classification chips. “Hifn has worked closely with GDA’s engineering and business teams. We are very impressed with both the quality of GDA’s IP offering and the competency of their teams,” said John Metzger, vice president of engineering at Hifn.“ The immediate benefit to Hifn is that we will reduce our time to market by using the GDA cores. However, our customers will also benefit by the ability to design security chips into their products in look-aside or flow-through modes. Using the HyperTransport host and bridging capability will help them gain substantial advantages in scaling their solutions and reducing development time.” “We are delighted that Hifn has chosen GDA as their HyperTransport IP provider,” said AG Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. “Having the world’s leading network security solution provider as a customer further highlights GDA’s commitment to developing and providing world class Intellectual-Property cores.” HyperTransport interconnect technology is a new high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link for integrated circuits, developed to enable the chips inside of high-performance compute devices, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other faster than with existing technologies. GDA has a broad portfolio of foundry independent IP cores available, including: HyperTransport Tunnel, HyperTransport Bridge, HyperTransport Cave, HyperTransport Host, SPI-4 Phase II controller, and 10 Gigabit MAC HyperTransport Cave and HyperTransport Host from GDA are fully compliant (Version 1.03), designs with complete verification and synthesis environment. The designs provide a highly flexible peripheral interface to user’s logic in addition to the upstream and downstream HyperTransport Link interfaces. In addition to the IP library, GDA also offers a suite of design services to enable integration of this core into customer design. GDA will provide additional design, Verification as well as Physical implementation of the customer device on demand. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company with high value IP, Value added Design services and flexible engineering resources around the world targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Voice and Data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com About Hifn Hifn, of Los Gatos, California makes integrated circuits and software for network infrastructure developers. Hifn's integrated data flow technology enables intelligent secure networks with compression, encryption and application-aware classification. This is central to the growth of the Internet, helping to make electronic mail, web browsing, Internet shopping and multimedia communications better, faster and more secure. Most of the major network equipment manufacturers use Hifn's patented technology to improve packet processing. Hifn was founded in 1996 and is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the HIFN symbol. For more information, contact: Hifn, 750 University Avenue, Los Gatos, CA 95032 Phone: 408-399-3500. Fax: 408-399-3501. Web: www.hifn.com About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, high-performance interconnect for integrated circuits that provide a universal connection designed to reduce the number of buses within the system. It provides a high-performance link for networking and embedded applications, and enables highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It is designed to enable the chips inside PCs, servers, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than existing bus technologies. HyperTransport technology enables system designers to develop very complex, high-performance, scalable networking topologies through switching technology, while maintaining and improving the scalability and performance of their existing legacy PCI infrastructures. Additional information about HyperTransport technology or the HyperTransport Consortium can be accessed at www.hypertransport.org GDA Technologies, Inc. and the GDA logo are registered trademarks of GDA Technologies, Inc. HyperTransport is a trademark of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. Hifn is a registered trademark of Hifn, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. San Jose, California – May 06, 2002 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), announced the successful participation in the development of IP Unity’s Harmony6000™ line of servers for integrated Voice, Data and Web applications. At the heart of IP Unity's solution is the Harmony6000™ media server, a high density DSP engine with the capacity to manage as many as 16,000 ports in a single 13RU shelf, the highest density media server on the market. The GDA engineering team worked with IPUnity to design, test and delivered multiple components of the Harmony6000 system. GDA worked closely with IP Unity over the past two three years as their product development partner from concepts to prototypes and production. GDA, with six years of IC, board and embedded software design services under its belt, was able to accelerate completion of the solution thereby helping IP Unity to realize its time-to-market goals. “IP Unity’s Harmony6000 is believed to be the first solution of its kind, capable for processing massive media services and applications over a single, scalable platform. It was a great delight for GDA to participate in the development of this unique platform. The IP Unity and GDA relationship has yielded great results as evinced by the successful launch of IP Unity’s products. GDA will continue to support and work with IP Unity for the years to come, ” Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Design Services of GDA Technologies. “GDA has shown a very unique commitment to end-to-end product design and has been an extremely flexible design organization. Their engineering resource scalability had played an important role in the development and support of our Platform on a continuous basis. GDA’s ability to provide Board, CAD, Backend, FPGA as well as Embedded Software Services is key factor in this long term engagement,” said Dave Rodgers, Senior Vice President of Engineering at IP Unity. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company with high value IP, Value added Design services and flexible engineering resources around the world targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Voice and Data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. , and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore , Chennai and Bangalore, India . The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com About IP Unity Headquartered in Milpitas, CA., IP Unity delivers a carrier-grade services platform for enhanced voice and telephony applications over ATM, TDM and VoIP Networks. The company's media servers, applications servers, enhanced service applications, and application partners allow customers to quickly and cost-effectively offer new services associated with next-generation networks while protecting their investment in legacy systems. IP Unity has closed three rounds of funding with blue chip investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Partech International, Firsthand Funds, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein,Presidio Venture (Sumitomo Corporation) and Liberty Mutual. For more information, call 408-957-0800 or visit the company website at www.ipunity.com SAN JOSE, California – May 03, 2002 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced its partnership with Mai Logic Incorporated (MAI) for developing Embedded Software and Diagnostics for Mai Logic ASIC devices to accelerate the growth of the Motorola MPC74XX “G4” host processor based embedded systems market. Under this business relationship, GDA will work with Mai Logic’s tightly integrated Articia S chipset which raises the high performance/low cost feature of Motorola processors compliant with the PowerPC™ architecture, to a new level. GDA’s rich experience with PowerPC® processors and related system design can be utilized by Articia customers in solving their time to market puzzle. GDA has worked closely with Mai Logic over the past six months as their product development partner for developing Embedded Linux platform software, Boot code as well as for the development of unique Diagnostics software that would enable platform development based on Articia ASIC from concepts to prototypes and production. GDA, with six years of IC, board and embedded software design services under its belt, will able to accelerate completion of the system solution including software development around Articia chipset. GDA is excited to work with MAI’s chipsets and software development designed to enhance the solutions in the PowerPC platform development,” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System and Software Services at GDA Technologies Inc. With GDA’s rich Embedded Software experience and driver development capabilities combined with GDA’s Diagnostics Software IP, can enable product developments around Mail Logic Articia Chipsets. While we were searching for a key partner for Embedded Linux based software development as well as for boot code creation for our chipset, GDA’s track record in this space made a compelling factor towards selecting them. During the past six months, GDA has shown a very unique commitment to software deliverables and has been very extremely flexible with our needs.GDA’s ability to support multiple embedded Operating Systems and provide Board and system level services will help us to enable our silicon in the market place,” said Sky Chang Vice President, Architecture Development at MAI Logic. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company with high value IP, Value added Design services and flexible engineering resources around the world targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Voice and Data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com About Mai Logic Incorporated Mai Logic Incorporated (MAI), headquartered in Fremont, California, is a leading-edge technology company specializing in system IC designs. It is one of the few companies to-date that are capable of designing million-gate count ICs. MAI’s major products include system ICs and modules for PowerPC compatible systems, system ICs for wireless applications, System-on-A-Chip (SOC), and revolutionarily re-configurable ICs with patented Genetic Computing™ technology. These are designed to meet the needs of today’s computing systems, embedded systems, as well as those of emerging markets. MAI’s production facilities are based in Taiwan, thus utilizing the cost-efficiencies of the region, and enabling products that meet the needs of price-conscious end-users. For more information, please visit http://www.mai.com Mai Logic, Articia, and Genetic Computing are registered trademarks or trademarks of Mai Logic Incorporated. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. OpenVera IP Complements the Synthesizeable RTL Core Provided by GDA and Accelerates Verification of HyperTransport Compliant Devices SAN JOSE, Calif. -- April 15, 2002-- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of intellectual property (IP) and design services, today announced the availability of OpenVera™ verification IP for the HyperTransport™ protocol. This verification IP, based on the OpenVera hardware verification language, complements the synthesizable core for HyperTransport Tunnel available from GDA and provides users with a highly sophisticated verification environment for this complex protocol. This verification IP contains pre-built and pre-verified modules for generating HyperTransport transactions and monitors,enabling users to reduce total verification time. HyperTransport interconnect technology is a new high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link for integrated circuits (ICs), developed to enable chips inside high-performance computer, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other faster than with existing technologies. “By delivering this OpenVera verification IP, along with our already released Tunnel RTL synthesizable core, GDA is taking a leadership position as the provider of key HyperTransport technologies,” said Ravi Thummarukudy, vice president of IC Design Services at GDA Technologies. “Our suite of OpenVera verification IP, synthesizable RTL and design services address the design, verification and integration aspect of HyperTransport Technology in our customers’ designs.” “One of our objectives is to give the OpenVera community access to complete solutions for a large array of verification challenges,” said Jim Watts, OpenVera program manager at Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) “We live in a fast-paced world where technology is rapidly evolving. The development of verification IP solutions for emerging protocols like HyperTransport plays a critical role in helping the OpenVera user community maximize their design and debug productivity and reduce the time-to-market verification bottleneck.” Key features of GDA OpenVera verification IP • Compliant with HyperTransport I/O Link Specification, version 1.03 “Availability of re-useable synthesizable cores and OpenVera IP is a strong enabler for the adoption and proliferation of HyperTransport Technology,” said Gabriele Sartori, president of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. “Availability of this verification IP from GDA, a contributing member of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, will enable timely delivery of high-quality HyperTransport-based designs.” About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, high-performance interconnect for integrated circuits that provide a universal connection designed to reduce the number of buses within the system. It provides a high-performance link for networking and embedded applications, and enables highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It is designed to enable the chips inside PCs, servers, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than existing bus technologies. HyperTransport technology enables system designers to develop very complex, high-performance, scalable networking topologies through switching technology, while maintaining and improving the scalability and performance of their existing legacy PCI infrastructures. Additional information about HyperTransport technology or the HyperTransport Consortium can be accessed at www.hypertransport.org About OpenVera OpenVera is an open source hardware verification language developed specifically to meet the unique requirements of functional verification. The language enables users to describe the target application environment, including complex protocols and data objects, at a high level of abstraction, which dramatically increases productivity, readability and reusability. The latest OpenVera developments will be featured at the ninth semiannual Synopsys EDA Interoperability Developers’ Forum in Sunnyvale, CA on Tuesday, April 16, 2002. For more information on OpenVera, visit www.open-vera.com GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company with high value IP, value added design services and flexible engineering resources around the world targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing systems, boards, SoCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, handheld embedded solutions, digital video applications, Internet appliances, voice and data networking applications, and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. For more information on GDA Technologies, please visit www.gdatech.com GDA Technologies, Inc. announces the availability of HyperTransport™ Tunnel IP core and Integration services Silicon Proven IP and integration services targeted to significantly reduce the development time for HyperTransport™ Compliant device San Jose, Calif. – Jan 23, 2002 – GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Intellectual Property and Design Services, today announced the availability of a HyperTransport™ Tunnel IP and related integration services. HyperTransport interconnect technology is a new high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link for integrated circuits, developed to enable the chips inside of high-performance compute devices, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other faster than with existing technologies. The basic implementation of this HyperTransport Tunnel IP was extracted from technology originally developed by AMD. GDA has converted this to a re-usable IP block to enable high performance IC designs using HyperTransport I/O technology. “This is a very important step in the evolution of the HyperTransport Consortium. As a leader and promoter of HyperTransport technology, AMD is pleased to enable GDA Technologies,” said Richard Heye, vice president of Platform Engineering and Infrastructure for AMD’s Computation Products Group. “GDA’s IP offerings and associated services are designed to help to enable HyperTransport adopters to launch HyperTransport technology based products in a timely fashion.” HyperTransport technology's bandwidth of 12.8GB/sec represents up to a 48-fold increase in data throughput, compared with existing system interconnects that typically provide bandwidth of up to 266MB/sec. HyperTransport complements externally visible bus standards like the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), as well as emerging technologies including InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet. The HyperTransport Tunnel IP from GDA is a fully compliant (Version 1.03), Silicon Validated design with complete verification and synthesis environment. This design provides a highly flexible peripheral interface to user’s logic in addition to the upstream and downstream HyperTransport Link interfaces. A pre-release of the IP will be available for limited customers in January 2002. A general release is planned for April 2002. The IP package consists of Verilog RTL code, Verification environment, Test cases as well as detailed design documentation. The EDA tools supported in the current release are Verilog-NC, Verilog-XL and Design Compiler. In addition to the IP, GDA also offers a suite of design services to enable integration of this core into customer design. GDA will provide additional design, Verification as well as Physical implementation of the customer device on demand. GDA is currently discussing with various semiconductor vendors to qualify this IP in their respective technologies and offer this IP to their end customers. “As HyperTransport technology produces a fast interconnect technology to deal with the latest networking and server applications, we believe this offering from GDA is designed to tremendously boost the proliferation of HyperTransport technology,” said Gabriele Sartori, president of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. “GDA, a contributor member of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, is positioned to make this IP offering and continue to evolve it as the consortium defines new features and revisions of the specification.” Started in 1996, GDA Technologies provides Intellectual Property (IP) and IP enabled design services for IC, System and embedded software design. During this time, GDA successfully developed several networking IP blocks such as Utopia3, SPI-4, 1G/10G MAC and T1/E1 Framer in addition to a suite of SOC components such as PCI, USB, SDRAM Controller, AC97, Reed Solomon and HDLC Controller. In Addition, GDA provides complete design services from SOC integration, Verification, Physical design and Silicon Validation. “HyperTransport is a right choice for many applications that need high bandwidth and limited pin count. With the release of this core, our customers can focus on their vertical expertise while using our HyperTransport tunnel IP to solve the I/O bottlenecks in their IC designs" said AG Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. Key features of GDA Tunnel IP • Compliant with HyperTransport I/O Link Specification, version 1.03 About HyperTransport™ Technology HyperTransport technology is here and now; a high-speed, high-performance, interconnect for integrated circuits that provide a universal connection designed to reduce the number of buses within the system. It provides a high-performance link for networking and embedded applications, and enables highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It is designed to enable the chips inside of PCs, servers, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than existing bus technologies. HyperTransport technology enables system designers to develop very complex, high-performance, scalable networking topologies through switching technology, while maintaining and improving the scalability and performance of their existing legacy PCI infrastructures. Additional information about HyperTransport technology or the HyperTransport Consortium can be accessed on the World Wide Web www.hypertransport.org About AMD AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor’s 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in 2001. (NYSE: AMD). For more AMD news and product information, please visit www.amd.com GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company with high value IP, Value added Design services and flexible engineering resources around the world targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developedproducts in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Voice and Data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston, Sacramento, Singapore, Chennai and Bangalore, India. San Jose, California – October 23, 2001 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it is developing a key development platform for NAS-SAN applications using Broadcom® BCM1250 Broadband Processor on the industry standard CPCI form-factor board for value-added resellers, system integrators and OEMs. This unique platform is built around the Broadcom BCM1250 Broadband Processor which integrates two 64-bit MIPS® CPU cores, 512K L2 cache, DDR memory controller and integrated I/O onto a single low power chip. The integrated I/O includes three 10/100/1000 Ethernet MACs configurable to FIFO interfaces, and support for HyperTransport, a high-speed I/O bus. The base platform will consist of two Gigabit Ethernet ports and one Fibre Channel port. The board also has the standard compute subsystem around the BCM1250 processor with 256MB unbuffered DDR memory, 1MB CAM and 8/16MB Boot Flash. A key design feature of the design of this platform is that it can be easily modified to work with other popular Network Processors in the industry. Along with the hardware, GDA will port and deliver Flash based firmware and board support packages for VxWorks® and Embedded Linux. GDA is also working with third-party software protocol developers to allow this integrated platform to be customized for emerging protocols like iSCSI and to be able to meet the requirements of highly critical packet inspection security system designs at wire speeds. “Looking at the convergence of networking, servers and storage segments, GDA Technologies has evaluated the Network storage market needs for a development platform around Network Processor architectures. GDA has been working hand-in-hand with leading Network Processor vendors during the last 6 months to build concepts, prototypes and products using industry standard platforms and we will continue to focus on this important industry segment in the months to come. By working with GDA, OEMs and system integrators can bring new product offerings in record time.” said Gopa Periyadan, Vice President of System Design Services of GDA. CPCI based board hardware and embedded software stack will be available for our customers and OEMs towards the end of Q4, 2001. Customers can purchase the boards along with the software or license the design for further feature enhancements. OEMs and system integrators can utilize GDA’s time tested design service offerings to customize this platform. The Embedded Software team at GDA will be working closely with our software partners to add features in the end product for our customers. “GDA is making strong investments in applications and product designs using emerging processor technologies to allow our customers to shorten their time-to-market. GDA is working on a reference design road-map using the latest processors and emerging technologies like 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and Server-Switch combo solutions.” said A G Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies. For additional information on this family of products, contact Curtis Drever at curtis@gdatech.com. For more information on Broadcom’s BCM1250 family of processors, visit Broadcom’s website, http://www.broadcom.com/. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies, Inc. is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking and consumer electronic designs. GDA focused on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held Solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Sacramento, Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. Company has over 130 engineers worldwide. GDA’s web site is at www.gdatech.com. Broadcom © is a trademark of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the US and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. GDA Technologies, Inc. delivers working platform for FiberCycle's 206 WebBunker Server San Jose, California - April 11, 2001 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS), today announced that it has designed and delivered fully functional platform level design and testing for FiberCycle Network's WebBunker 206 line of low power and high density web servers. GDA's expertise in hardware design of networking products allowed it to deliver fully functional platforms in record time. In addition, GDA successfully implemented WindRiver's Real Time OS VxWorks on the I/O platform. GDA has worked together with FiberCycle from requirement stage till delivery of the working units. The synergistic alliance between GDA and FiberCycle allowed both companies to successfully resolve any challenges faced during the course of the design and development process. "GDA Technologies has worked hand-in-hand with FiberCycle over the last 6 months to build concepts, prototypes and products. They have been highly responsive and have used their international capabilities to work around the clock on demanding project schedules. FiberCycle has achieved great time to market acceleration by working with GDA," said Spero Koulouras, CEO of FiberCycle. FiberCycle's WebBunker is an ultra-dense server designed specifically for use in Internet Data Centers. The WebBunker packs from 6 to 12 CPU's into a 2U (3.5") form factor, that allows up to 504 CPU's to be configured in a 6' data center rack. All components (CPU, Power Supply, Fans, and IO) are hot swappable, and the power supply is redundant and load sharing. The WebBunker is x86 compatible, runs Windows 2000, Linux and BSDi Operating Systems, and supports up to 512MB of memory per processor. An integrated Ethernet Switch and Fiber Channel hub will be available as options. "There is a strong relationship between the Management and Engineering teams of GDA and FiberCycle. GDA's expertise in design, implementation and project management combined with the relationship has made this program a big success," said Gopa Periyadan, Vice-President, Engineering of GDA Technologies. About GDA Technologies About FiberCycle Networks Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California, FiberCycle, Inc. is the leading provider of content acceleration systems-web-optimized, power efficient ultra servers for the Internet Data Center and Managed Service Provider markets. With FiberCycle's WebBunker products, high traffic Web site operators can increase the number of web transactions processed per data center rack by up to five times, without increasing power consumption. The company is the first to deliver Transmeta-based ultra server products. FiberCycle's management team is composed of industry veterans from Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, 3Com and NetManage. The company is privately held, with investors that include Frank Marshall, Venture Partner, Sequoia Capital; Dominic Orr, CEO, Alteon; Valori Stitt; Deutsche Banc Alex Brown Private Equity Group; CrossLink Technology Partners; DotEdu Ventures; Sunrise Capital Fund; Alliance Venture Management, and the Zodiac Venture Fund. More information on the company is available at www.fibercycle.com. GDA Technologies, Inc. unveils an integrated approach for SOC design and Integration for the Networking market. San Jose, Calif.- March 20, 2001 - GDA Technologies Inc, a fast growing supplier of Electronics Design Services (EDS) today unveiled its integrated development plan that includes Intellectual property blocks, High level Verification environment, SOC integration platform and Design services for the networking industry. According to this plan, GDA will release a highly configurable and high performance 10GB MAC, Utopia Level3 Interface, Viterbi decoder and FFT intellectual property blocks in Q2, 2001. These blocks are designed to integrate seamlessly with the SOCCER ™ SOC development platform from GDA. To verify these designs, GDA will release VERA ™ verification environment and FPGA prototyping environment for the SOCCER ™ platform for easy customer verification and integration GDA has delivered several SoC designs and System Level Solutions in the Networking Product space in the last 18 months. GDA saw a significant market opportunity for cost reduced, highly integrated Networking products. Cost reduction is possible through Silicon Integration, IP re-use and reduction in development costs. The IP blocks announced today, in conjunction with the SOCCER™ SOC development platform and design services will address the demand from the customers in the Networking Space. Started in 1996, GDA Technologies provides value added design services for System, IC and Embedded software. GDA has been chosen as the electronic product development partner by many of its customers and GDA has successfully delivered several working designs to the market. GDA design centers are well equipped to develop working prototypes from specifications. GDA has also developed a portfolio of SOC components such as PCI, SDRAM Controller, Smart Card Controller, AC97, HDLC controller and I2C. These intellectual property blocks are in technology independent RTL that could be targeted to the latest technologies. "Our Networking customers demand the fastest turnaround time for IC design from GDA and this necessitates the need to have a comprehensive environment that includes IP, Verification Environment, SOC platform & FPGA prototyping of customer designs" said Ravi Thummarukudy, Vice President of IC design at GDA Technologies, Inc. " Our approach will enable our customer to reduce the development time by using our proven IP cores, platform and methodologies." About GDA Technologies Datalux Corporation selects GDA Technologies to be the development partner for its Next Generation Mobile Data Product San Jose, California. - April 11, 2001 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS) today announced that it has won a turnkey contract for system level design and development for the Datalux Corporation's next generation mobile data product . GDA is responsible for complete board development from requirement specifications. GDA and Datalux Corporation have worked together from the product requirement stage including project plan, architecture and design, and will continue to work through implementation, prototyping, testing and Agency certification. "We are hoping to shorten the development cycle by at least 40 percent. GDA has enabled us to streamline the product development process so we can get our product out in the market with an aggressive schedule. GDA's hardware design capabilities have enabled us to focus on our key strengths of innovative packaging and marketing," said Rob Twyford, VP Engineering of Datalux Corporation. "Datalux Corporation has found a complementary strength in GDA Engineering team both in terms of expertise and the approach to product design. GDA's expertise in the System design, implementation and aggressive project management is sure to make this program a big success, and we are looking forward to repeat engagements with Datalux. The business relationship has additional recurring revenue possibilities for GDA based on the success of this product in the market", said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies. About GDA Technologies
About Datalux Corporation GDA Technologies, Inc. announces setting up a new design center in Sacramento, California San Jose, Calif.- March 20, 2001 - GDA Technologies Inc, a fast growing supplier of Electronics Design Services (EDS) today announced that they are setting up a new design center in Sacramento, CA. With this GDA Technologies will operate from five-design centers worldwide. The Sacramento design center will focus on specialized Embedded Hardware and Software design development services for customers in the West Coast . The design center is equipped with state of the art Electronic Design Automation tools and integrated software development environments. San Jose, Calif.- Sept 22, 2000 - GDA Technologies Inc, a fast growing supplier of Electronics Design Services (EDS) today announced that they have been selected by IP unity to be the hardware development partner to implement IP unity’s unique scalable hardware & software platform for integrated Voice and Data solution. Started in 1996, GDA technologies provide design services for System, IC and Embedded software design. GDA has been chosen as the electronic product development partner by many of its customers and GDA has successfully delivered several working designs to the market. GDA design centers are well equipped to develop working prototypes from specifications. GDA has also developed a portfolio of SOC components such as PCI, SDRAM Controller, AC97, USB, Reed Solomon, HDLC controller and I2C. "GDA technologies have established a reputation in the market for providing high quality hardware design services. We are looking forward to partnering with them to accelerate the development of our system. GDA’s proven expertise in the Voice And Data networking applications combined with their high speed board and IC design will allow us to develop a highly integrated solution for our customers" said Ahmed Afroz , President and CEO of IP unity, Inc. "We are excited to partner with the companies such as IP unity with a distinguished team of technologists with a vision to develop the next generation infrastructure solution in the IP Telephony Market" said AG Karunakaran "AGK", President of GDA Technologies Inc. " We look forward to accelerating the product development schedules to make their vision a reality in the shortest possible time". About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Voice and Data networking applications and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Boston, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com. About IP Unity Headquartered in Milpitas, California, IP Unity was founded in late 1999 with the mission: ``to deliver an optimal and scalable carrier-class hardware and software-based applications delivery platform that will enable service providers and portals to deliver enhanced voice, data and web-integrated services over next generation packet networks as well as traditional PSTN networks.'' For more information, visit the company web site at www.ipunity.com. SANJOSE, California - June 5, 2000 -- GDA Technologies, Inc, a fast growing supplier of Electronic Design Services (EDS) today announced that it successfully completed the first year as the ASIC support and signoff partner with NEC Electronics, Inc. During this time GDA supported several customers and successfully implemented more than ten ASICs. During the past year GDA Technologies provided RTL Design, Synthesis, Design For Test (DFT) , P&R and DRC/LVS for NEC’s ASIC customers. In some cases GDA provided complete RTL signoff where the customer handed over the RTL code and GDA implemented the complete design as per specifications. GDA provided signoff and support services to many customers including NEC Micro Division, Telocity, 2WIRE, Growth Networks, Intel, Cisco, Nortel Networks etc. Chris Hagler, Director of Gateway Engineering at Telocity, stated " We worked with GDA on one of the ASIC projects and we were very pleased with their ASIC implementation knowledge , attention to detail and customer support. Our ASIC was a complex design with several third party IP cores, stringent timing requirements and a tight schedule. GDA could meet these challenges and was instrumental and signing off the design on schedule." " It is a fact that supporting customers doing complex SOC in the DSM processes require more attention from our design center resources" said Tom Nishimura, General Manager Western Region at NEC Electronics. "GDA has been a true partner complementing our design and implementation capabilities in times of need. We have been working with GDA for the last three years and they have developed strong expertise in NEC ASIC design flows and methodologies. The success of this program shows their skills and strong customer focus" "We believe in establishing long term partnerships with our customers by adding value to our customers business. NEC wanted a partner who could provide complementary services in the ASIC logic design as well as additional capacity in the DFT and Physical design area. We are able to meet both these requirements on an ongoing basis. The success of this partnership is an indication of our commitment to customer’s business success" said Ravi Thummarukudy, VP Marketing at GDA Technologies, Inc. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies, Inc. is a design services vendor specializing in Embedded, Networking and Consumer electronics designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IP from concept to product. They have developed significant expertise in Compact PCI, Digital Video and Internet appliance product development for their customers. GDA is located in San Jose, Calif., and have satellite design centers in Boston, Chennai (India) and Bangalore (India). The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com/ About NEC Electronics Inc. NEC Electronics Inc., based in Santa Clara, California, is the U.S. semiconductor arm of NEC Corporation, located in Tokyo, Japan. NEC Electronics Inc. is in a unique position to offer its customers the choice of a full-line of standard products that make up the major system blocks of communications, consumer and PC/PC peripherals products today, with the added choice of integration - from individual functions to full system integration. In addition, NEC Electronics Inc. has access to the full range of system-level resources and R&D at its parent company, enabling NEC to bring extensive systems-level knowledge to its U.S. customer base. Finally, NEC Electronics' 709,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Roseville, California ensures its U.S. customers have access to one of the most advanced volume manufacturing capabilities in the United States. For more information about products offered by NEC Electronics Inc., please visit the NEC Electronics Inc. Web site at http://www.necel.com/. GDA Technologies, Inc delivers Design for Test (DFT) services for Digidesign and helps accelerate ASIC development. In this engagement, GDA enhanced Digidesigns’s DFT methodology using Logic Visions’s icBIST™ tool. GDA performed scan & JTAG insertion, optimized multi scan chain flow, and developed qualified test vectors for ASIC signoff. In addition GDA also established a Static Timing Analysis flow for the test structures. "We had to accelerate the development of this ASIC, and GDA with its knowledge of the popular DFT Tools and methodologies was able to come on board and set up the environment in a short amount of time" said Frank Tucker, Hardware Engineering Manager at Digidesign. "I am very pleased with their ASIC design knowledge and customer service and their contribution certainly helped us accelerate this ASIC program." GDA Technologies, Inc has established a comprehensive ASIC design flow for DFT and has delivered several successful DFT related services. GDA provides DFT services around popular EDA tools from Logic Vision, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys and Syntest. GDA has also established relationships with various Silicon vendors to develop qualified test vectors and accelerate the design cycle time. "Today’s complex ASIC and SOC design pose a big challenge for traditional methods of DFT implementation. It requires a combination of approaches as these designs contain several complex intellectual property (IP) blocks and memories. Our DFT services focus on establishing methodologies using the EDA tool of choice and delivering DFT services around it. This service complements our logic design and physical design services and is crucial in delivering working ASICs," said Ravi Thummarukudy, Vice President of GDA Technologies, Inc. "This announcement with Digidesign is an endorsement of GDA ’s DFT and ASIC design capabilities " About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a design services vendor specializing in Embedded, Networking and Consumer electronics designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IP from concept to product. They have developed significant expertise in Compact PCI, Digital Video and Internet appliance product development for their customers. GDA is located in San Jose, Calif., and has satellite design centers in Boston , Chennai (India) and Bangalore(India). The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), is the leading digital audio production software and systems manufacturer. Digidesign's products provide the professional music, film, video, multimedia, and broadcast radio industries with CD-quality digital recording, random access editing, advanced signal processing and digital audio mixing applications. Digidesign products are marketed in over 30 countries worldwide, through a distribution network of value-added dealers, distributors and OEM relationships.
GDA Technologies, Inc. Delivers the Board Design for Network Engines WebEngine Roadster Product Line The board level solution is based around Intel Celeron processor, Intel 810 chip set with integrated graphics controller. It has dual 10/100 Ethernet ports, a cluster management bus and can have up to 512 MB RAM and 2 hard disk drives. GDA has an on going development relationship with Network Engines and this solution follows the successful delivery and launch of the WebEngine Viper board design. GDA and Network Engines worked together from the product requirement stage to a shippable product including project plan, architecture, design, implementation and prototyping. Both companies worked together to resolve the challenges faced during the development stage. "GDA’s hardware design capabilities enabled us to focus on our key strengths to develop Roadster’s innovative packaging and robust software components. GDA enabled us to streamline the product development process so we could focus on our core competencies," Larry Genovesi, President & CEO of Network Engines. Out of the box, Roadster is a fully functional Web server with a comprehensive software suite, including Web content delivery, e-mail, and file transfer services. At just 1U high (1.75 inches), Roadster takes up a small footprint in co-location facilities and comes cluster-enabled to scale easily to up to 256 units. Roadster comes in two models. The Roadster LX™, is an Intel-based appliance server priced at under $2,000 and comes complete with Linux and Apache Web server software. The Roadster NT™ comes pre-loaded with Windows NT and Microsoft IIS Web server software. "There is a strong relationship between the Management and Engineering teams of the GDA and Network Engines. GDA expertise in the board design, implementation and project management combined with the relationship has made this program a big success", said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company specializing in embedded, networking, and consumer electronics designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Networking, Digital Video, Internet Appliances and Hand Held solutions. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has satellite design centers in Boston, Chennai and Bangalore. GDA web site is at http://www.gdatech.com. About Network Engines Network Engines provides high-density, scalable Internet server appliances that support large Web-based applications for "dot com" companies, Internet service providers, application service providers and larger enterprises. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Randolph, Massachusetts. For more information, visit the company’s Web site at www.networkengines.com. San Jose, Calif.- May 9, 2000 - GDA Technologies Inc, a fast growing supplier of Electronics Design Services (EDS) today announced that they are setting uphave opened two more design centers. The new design centers are located in Boston, MA and Bangalore, India. While the Boston design center will cater to their customers in the East Coast and Europe, the Bangalore center will focus on developing its SOCCER an SOC framework development platform and components for GDA’s SOCCER SOC development platform. Each of these design centers will be equipped with state of the art Hardware and Eelectronic Design Automation tools. . With this the total number of design centers have grown to four worldwide. Started in 1996, GDA technologies provide value added design services for System, IC and Embedded software. GDA has been chosen as the electronic product development partner by many of its customers and GDA has successfully delivered several working designs to the market. GDA design centers are well equipped to develop working prototypes from specifications. GDA has also developed a portfolio of SOC components such as PCI, SDRAM Controller, AC97, HDLC controller and I2C. These intellectual property blocks are in technology independent RTL blocks that could be targeted to the latest technologies. "We are very excited with the growth of GDA Technologies and the addition of these new design centers will enable us to be more close to our customers and provide local support" said AG Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. " The Electronics Design Services (EDS) Market is truly emerging and being one of the pioneers in this market, we are well positioned to take advantage of the growth in this market in the coming years. Our capabilities in the System, IC and Embedded software services and electronic Product development partner message is unique in the market and our growth shows the strong needs for such services" About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Networking devices and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has a satellite design centers in Boston, Chennai and Bangalore, India. The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com. SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 6, 2000 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast-growing supplier of value-added electronic design services, including intellectual property (IP) development and integration, today announced that it has been selected by PortalPlayer, Inc. as a partner in the development of a complex system-on-a-chip (SOC). The SOC is one element of PortalPlayer’s complete end-to-end solution for downloading and streaming digital media content. GDA will provide design and verification support for several blocks of the PortalPlayer IC. PortalPlayer’s SOC includes what the company calls SuperIntegrationÔ , which targets optimal processing power with the appropriate multimedia and memory interfaces for a specific application. GDA will design and integrate IP blocks for the front end of the chip, and will set up a complete verification environment, including hardware and software co-verification, block and full-chip verification. "Time to market is extremely critical for PortalPlayer’s solution, and we believe that GDA’s multimedia design expertise, combined with its SOC implementation experience, will help us accelerate our silicon development schedule," said Dr. Venkat Rayapati, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at PortalPlayer. "The growing demands of the Internet and e-commerce are driving the need for highly integrated SOC solutions. Because of this, there is a dramatic shortage of talented developers for design implementation and verification efforts. Utilizing additional external resources from GDA has enabled us to produce, on schedule, what is arguably one of the most highly optimized devices for next-generation media player/recorders." "GDA has been offering SOC design services since early 1999, and has successfully implemented multiple programs," said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. "This program with PortalPlayer is yet another recognition of GDA’s SOC capabilities." About GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a design services vendor specializing in Embedded, Networking and Consumer electronics designs. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IP from concept to product. They have developed significant expertise in Compact PCI, Digital Video and Internet appliance product development for their customers. GDA is located in San Jose, Calif., and has a satellite design center in Chennai, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About Portal Player, Inc. PortalPlayer, Inc. develops and supplies complete end-to-end media infrastructure solutions for delivering Internet-based digital audio to consumers. The solutions include applications that directly connect to the leading music and content Web sites, media management software, firmware, and semiconductors. Target systems are player/recorder devices, such as portable players, home entertainment systems, and cellular phones. Founded in June 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, PortalPlayer, Inc., also has operations in Seattle, Washington, and Hyderabad, India. The company received its first round of funding from Chase Capital, Techfund, and FlatIron Partners. More information on PortalPlayer, Inc., and its products is available on the company’s Web site, www.portalplayer.com. TM: SuperIntegration is a trademark of PortalPlayer, Inc. San Jose, California. November 14, 1999 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of turnkey hardware design services today announced that it has developed the first Compact PCI (CPCI) board incorporating Cell Computing's Plug-N-Run module. This CPCI board incorporates Cell's Plug-N-Run 233MHz Pentium module, 10/100 Ethernet interface, one PMC slot, Altera FLEX 10K100 FPGA device with PCI Interface for custom logic and standard IO devices. The hardware architecture is built to support Windows 98 & NT, Linux and VxWorks operating systems. The Cell CPCI board from GDA is available to Compact PCI system integrators as specified or with customization based on their requirements. GDA is an authorized Hardware Design Partner for Cell Computing and is currently engaged in customizing this board for its initial customers. "We are extremely excited that GDA has announced the first Compact PCI board based on our Plug-N-Run modules for embedded applications. Their demonstrated capabilities in designing with our Systems-On-A-Module products, and their knowledge of Compact PCI design architecture for various vertical markets, position GDA as a significant player in the Compact PCI Solution space. " said Dave Cowan, Vice President of Business Development at Cell Computing. "The integration offered in this board allows software developers to quickly port applications in the Compact PCI development environment. This board can also be adapted to other slot / back plane based systems. Our mission is to help our customers bring innovative products to market rapidly, and without the cost and time over-runs too often associated with new product innovations. This board is a good avenue for our customers to develop complex CPCI embedded system designs in a short period of time." said A.G.Karunakaran "AGK", President of GDA Technologies, Inc. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company targeting the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focuses on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP’s from concept to product. GDA has successfully developed products in the areas of Compact PCI, Handheld embedded solutions, Digital Video applications, Internet appliances, Networking devices and non-form factor PC architectures. GDA is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has a satellite design center in Chennai, India. The GDA web site is http://www.gdatech.com. About Cell Computing Cell Computing was established in 1997 by PFU Limited, a 1.5 billion-dollar joint venture between Matsushita (Panasonic) and Fujitsu Limited. The company designs, manufactures, and markets the Plug-N-RunTM and CardPCTM families of micro-motherboard Systems-On-A-Module for the embedded computing market. Applications for these modules include rugged notebook and tablet computers, networking and telecommunications equipment, portable test and measurement equipment, embedded web servers, and other retail, industrial, and medical applications that require small computers with desktop or real-time embedded software. For more information about Cell Computing, please visit Cell's web site at http://www.cellcomputing.com/ . Cell Computing is a registered trademark, and Plug-N-Run and CardPC are trademarks of Cell Computing, Inc. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. SAN JOSE, Calif. - September 26, 1999 - GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing sup plier of design services company worked together with Lara Technologies in the development of Compact PCI MediaE xpress™ Gateway boards. While GDA and Lara together defined board level architecture for the solution, GD A completed the design, implementation, prototyping and debug of the complex CPCI solution. The board contains Embe dded Pentium CPU subsystem, MIPS processors, PCI-PCI subsystem, CT bus interface and Ethernet devices. Lara Technology introduced its award winning Unified Services Exchange, USX1000, the first carrier VoIP switch t hat enables complete PSTN convergence over IP networks. Lara's patent pending MediaExpress ™ technology solves the voice quality, latency and reliabilit y that are critical for transparent migration and interoperability with the PSTN. Furthermore, the USX1000 is the f irst solution that consolidates all metrics for IP based services, simplifying billing and OSS integration. "The relationship with Lara has given us another opportunity to demonstrate our Compact PCI expertise and m aking inroads in to an exciting application space such as Voice over IP (VoIP). Our design team worked together with Lara's team during definition, debug and RTOS inte gration. We look forward to enabling design ideas to prototype stage for similar exciting applications," said A.G. Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. The communication industry is migrating towards Compact PCI based solution for Open, industry leading embedded, telecom and datacom applications. GDA's expertise with CPCI standard combined with the extensive knowledge in PC I to PCI bridge architectures, Embedded CPU subsystems and FPGA architectures make it a highly value added design p artner. "Lara Technology engaged with GDA to address our time to market needs and to take advantage of GDA's expertis e in developing highly complex hardware designs" said Raj Saksena, Vice President of VoIP Business development at Lara Technologies, Inc. "GDA's team d elivered the design on time to make this a highly successful program" About GDA Technologies, Inc GDA Technologies, Inc. is a design services vendor specializing in Embedded, Netwo rking and Consumer electronics designs. GDA focus on designing Systems, Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IP from con cept to product. They have developed significant expertise in Compact PCI, Digital Video and Internet appliance pro duct development for its customers. GDA is located in San Jose, CA and has a satellite design center in Chennai, In dia. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com About Lara Technology, Inc. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Lara technology, Inc is a leadi ng supplier of systems solutions for the converging networking and telecommunications markets. Leading the advance in voice and data convergence, Lara is developing the first carrier VoIP Switch optimized for seamless migration of traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN), customers to voice over internet protocol (VoIP). Lara web s ite is www.laratech.com San Jose, California. - September 28, 1999 -- GDA Technologie s, Inc., a fast growing supplier of turnkey hardware design services today announced that it has partnered with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop a wide bandwid th, multi-channel, digital Correlator System. The Correlator System uses the industry standa rd PCI bus and compact PCI (cPCI) form factor. The Correlator design integrates several of GD A's re-useable IPs such as PCI bus-to-DSP bus, SDRAM controller and DSP-to-peripheral inte rface functions. The Correlator System is to be a major component in Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observato ry. The Correlator System consists of two highly complex cPCI boards; the Digitizer boards an d the Correlator boards. The Digitizer boards in the system convert wide bandwidth RF input signals into digital data that is transmitted to and processed by the Correlator boards. The Digitizer board is a modular design with a cPCI baseboard and a user defined plug-in m odule board. The baseboard contains the user programmed FPGAs, PCI interface, DSP, RAM and sy stem controller, while the plug-in module currently contains two 1GHz digitizers. The modular design allows easy upgrade of the digitizers, or modification for other project requirements . The digitizer modules are designed to sample 500MHz bandwidth input signals at a clock rate of 1GHz to 2-bits and then time multiplex this data to a 32-bit data stream at 62.5MHz or a 16-bit data stream at 125MHz. A phase locked loop (PLL) with a programmable reference delay i s used to generate the 1GHz digitizer clock frequency. The programmable delay is used to sync hronize each of the clocks on the Digitizer and Correlator boards in the system to within pic oseconds. A high speed 33.3 MFLOPS DSP is used for real-time control on the baseboard. The user programmed FPGAs are used to monitor the digitizer's operation by performing calculation s on the 32-bit data stream and to distribute data to front panel LVDS transceivers for trans mission of data to the Correlator boards. The reprogrammable nature of these FPGAs allows a g reat deal of flexibility in system re-design and upgrade. The Correlator board is a high speed compact PCI based highly complex board for computing the cross power spectrum between the telescope data received over the front-panel LVDS transc eiver interface. An array of ten Altera 100KA FPGAs (upgradable to faster 100KEs or denser 25 0KA/KEs) is used to perform computation of cross correlation function at a speed of 62.5MHz ( potentially 125MHz). A high speed 33.3 MFLOPS DSP is used to read the cross correlation estim ates from the array of FPGAs, for computing the cross power spectra using the FFT (Fast Fouri er Transform), and also for real time control. GDA's 33MHz PCI target core is used for the transfer of data to the host over PCI bus. GDA's DSP core logic IP and SDRAM controller I P are implemented in a single FPGA to achieve the Compact PCI form factor. Phase-lock clockin g techniques ensure the synchronization of the ten FPGAs on each Correlator board, and betwee n separate Correlator boards. While the development of the Correlator system is a joint project with Caltech, GDA retain s the commercial right for the development of this system. GDA plans to manufacture these boa rds on an OEM basis for several vertical applications such as Digital Filters, FPGA and ASIC prototyping, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). GDA performed the RTL design, verification, FPGA synthesis, and implementation targeting Altera Flex100 K devices. GDA also performed the full board design including logic design, sc hematic entry, board layout, design debug, documentation, and board bring-up. "This project provided us a unique opportunity work with a premier educational instit ution to develop a highly complex cPCI system. This project demonstrates the depth of skills within GDA in IP, IC and Board design services. GDA engineers overcame the challenges posed by the clocking scheme with ECL and CMOS and LVDS buffering related issues. The use of existi ng GDA cores allowed us to reduce the overall development time of the project." said A. G.Karunakaran "AGK", President of GDA Technologies, Inc. "Caltech chose GDA Technologies because of their proven strength in a variety of area s such as high performance board designs along with their capabilities for re-useable IP deve lopment and integration in ASICs and FPGAs. This partnership with GDA technologies enabled Ca ltech to focus on software architecture and development issues while making use of GDA's i ndustrial design experience in developing this complex and manufacturable hardware system&quo t; said Dave Hawkins, Senior Scientist at the California Institute of Technology's Owens Vall ey Radio Observatory. GDA Technologies's Application Specific Design Services portfolio includes product devel opment for PC, Networking and Consumer market segments. GDA has developed CPU engines for Rou ters, Switches and Firewalls for the networking markets based on x86, StrongARM, PowerPC and MIPS processors. In the consumer market, GDA has developed Digital Video products such as MPE G2 decoders, Internet appliances such as Web Telephone and Network Computers. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company targetin g the embedded, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focus on designing Systems , Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGAs and IPs from concept to product. They have developed signi ficant expertise in Digital Video, Compact PCI, SoC development, and Internet appliance produ ct development for its customers. GDA is headquartered at San Jose, CA and has a satellite d esign center in Chennai, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About Caltech The California Institute of Technology's Owe ns Valley Radio Observatory operates one of the world's finest radio interferometers. The int erferometer is composed of six 10m diameter telescopes, each with a surface accuracy of less than half a human hair. The accurate surfaces on the 10m dishes allow the observation of mole cular transitions that can be observed as radio emissions at millimeter wavelengths. The dete ction and processing of these molecular transitions allows the mapping of galaxies, molecular clouds, clusters of galaxies, planets, comets, and numerous other sources of radio emissions . These maps provide fundamental information on the formation, structure, chemistry, dynamics , and age of the universe we live in. San Jose, California - September 28, 1999 -- GDA Technologies , Inc., a fast growing supplier of design services announced today delivery of a NTSC/PAL to RGB converter to Virtual Vision Inc., a leading supplier of head wearable displays. The conv erter performs de-interlacing, scaling, and on-screen display functions which can drive a mic rodisplay or LCD flat panel display at SVGA resolution, providing artifact and flicker free d igital video to the display screen. The GDA design team managed the product development with selection of the chip vendors for the video decode, the de-interlacing and scaling functions, board design, and microcode deve lopment for the on-screen display. The design was implemented on dense and compact printed c ircuit boards. The solution was implemented within the project schedule. "Digital Video is the application area of focus for GDA. Our expertise and experienc e in the Digital Video Standards and Display Technology field has allowed us to complete this project successfully and on time. Our relationship with the chip vendors and proximity to t heir offices was an added asset to the solution. Our relationship with Virtual Vision has hel ped us to demonstrate our leadership position in the services arena." said A.G.Karunaka ran "AGK", President of GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA Technologies has extensive experience in the Digital Video Area and has delivered succ essful solutions to its customer base. The emergence of LCD displays in the desktop PC marke t and growth in handheld devices, projectors and head wearable display markets has created am ple design opportunity for GDA. The industry's rapid move toward digital display technolo gy has created a void in the necessary technical resources that only can be filled through ou tsourcing for the design services. "While our design team focused on the microdisplay interface, mechanical, optics, and industrial aspects, GDA worked on the digital electronics of this solution in parallel. The ir design experience around digital video decoders, de-interlacing/scaling functions, and mic rocode development were the key factors during vendor selection. GDA's on-time delivery o f this solution is extremely beneficial to the success of our program," said George Cone , President and CEO of Virtual Vision Inc. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies Inc is a leading design services company targeting the embedde d, networking, and consumer electronics markets. GDA focus on designing Systems, Boards, SOC s, ASICs, FPGA's and IP's from concept to product. They have developed significant expert ise in Digital Video, Compact PCI, SoC development, and Internet appliance product developmen t for its customers. GDA is headquartered at San Jose, CA and has a satellite design center in Chennai, India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About Virtual Vision Virtual Vision Inc (Redmond, Washington) is a wholly owned s ubsidiary of privately held FED Corporation (Hopewell Junction, NY). Virtual Vision develops and markets head wearable display systems for stand-alone and wireless computing for commerc ial, industrial and military applications. The company leverages its intellectual property p ortfolio and expertise to provide products which equip mobile computing by the integration of head-wearable display technology with head tracking, eye tracking, real-time video, and wire less communications. Ravi Thummarukudy, vice-president of marketing at GDA, stated, "this agreement with NEC is an endorsement of our over-all capabilities in the ASIC design area and our approach for strong partnership with our customers. As ASIC design is moving to multi-million gate SOC designs, ASIC implementation will require knowledge of both logical and physical domains. The integration and verification of IP blocks in both these domains is critical. GDA will continue to develop practices that encompass these aspects to reduce design time and uncertainty for our customers". ASIC Design and Signoff services In the ASIC design services role, GDA will provide a range of services to NEC's customers that include turnkey design, logic synthesis, internal and boundary scan insertion, floor planning, place and route and verification. GDA will also support NEC Electronics customers to generate clean designs and test vectors. GDA will support both gate array and cell based design methodologies for NEC's 0.35 and 0.25 micron technologies. GDA will use a host of EDA tools that includes NEC's OpenCAD system, internal tools and popular third party EDA tools from Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. "We have been working with GDA for the last two years and they have developed strong expertise in NEC ASIC design flows and methodologies" said Stuart Hamilton, senior engineering manager at NEC Electronics. "GDA's expertise complements our capabilities in providing the RTL design, synthesis, test and vector generation services our customers are looking for. In addition, GDA's knowledge of several vertical markets and key IP components will help accelerate NEC's emergence as a leader in providing system-on-a-chip solutions," he said. About GDA Technologies GDA Technologies, Inc. is a design services vendor specializing in PC, Networking, Multimedia and Consumer applications design. GDA has vast expertise in the leading edge design tools and methodologies for high-speed system design and deep sub-micron designs. Located in San Jose, California, GDA was established to serve as a product development partner for companies from concept to product, and focus on the design of ASICs, FPGAs, synthesizable cores and System design. The GDA Technologies website is at http://www.gdatech.com. About NEC Electronics Inc. NEC Electronics Inc., based in Santa Clara, California, is the U.S. semiconductor arm of NEC Corporation, located in Tokyo, Japan. NEC Electronics Inc. is in a unique position to offer its customers the choice of a full-line of standard products that make up the major system blocks of communications, consumer and PC/PC peripherals products today, with the added choice of integration - from individual functions to full system integration. In addition, NEC Electronics Inc. has access to the full range of system-level resources and R&D at its parent company, enabling NEC to bring extensive systems-level knowledge to its U.S. customer base. Finally, NEC Electronics' 709,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Roseville, California ensures its U.S. customers have access to one of the most advanced volume manufacturing capabilities in the United States. For more information about products offered by NEC Electronics Inc., please visit the NEC Electronics Inc. Web site at http://www.necel.com/ San Jose, California. \026 June 21, 1999 -- GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of turnkey hardware design services today announced that it partnered with Network Engines to deliver a Pentium® II/III board for Network Engine's new WebEngine and XEngine™ products. Both new products are scalable Internet thin servers, designed to run large web-based applications such as web and streaming media servers. Both are highly integrated, high performance systems and can scale to up to 256 nodes in a single cluster. The board can run either embedded Windows NT or Linux, and supplies high-speed cluster interconnect drivers and remote management. The design has Pentium II/III running at 550 MHz, 2 Gbytes of SDRAM memory running at 100 MHz, AGP and PCI bus interfaces. The GDA design team developed an innovative design strategy to comply with the stringent mechanical requirements of the 1U (1.75 Inches) height "Pizza Box" solution. A unique non-form factor board with 25 degree angle DIMM ECC supported sockets and a CPU connector specially defined for this purpose. The system is powered by a variety of supporting peripherals and I/O sub systems like SCSI, PCI Mezzanine Connectors, two 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, PCI VGA and four expansion slots along with a PCI 2 PCI bridge. GDA Technologies Application Specific Design Services portfolio includes product development for PC, Networking and Consumer market segments. GDA has developed CPU engines for Routers, Switches and Firewalls for the networking markets based on x86, StrongARM, PowerPC and MIPS processors. In the consumer market, GDA has developed Digital Video products such as MPGE2 decoders, Internet appliances such as Web Telephone and Network Computers. "The challenge was to fit everything within the one U height limit without compromising signal integrity at 100Mhz, thermal and EMI issues. Our PC architecture experience, system design expertise and relationship with component vendors allowed us to achieve the design goals defined in the Product Requirements specification. The development teams of both companies worked together very well to make this happen." said A.G.Karunakaran "AGK", President of GDA Technologies, Inc. "Network Engines chose to work with GDA Technologies because of their proven strength in a variety of areas such as high performance board designs around Pentium processors and embedded design capabilities combined with specific application knowledge. Their design center is well setup to do logic design, layout, software bring up and debug. The program's success was due to GDA's flexibility and dedication towards completing the program objectives," said Larry Genovesi, President and CEO of Network Engines, Inc. GDA Technologies is a premier design house located in Silicon Valley. GDA was established to be a product development partner for companies in the Computer, Networking and Consumer industries. They focus on designing Boards, SOCs, ASICs, FPGA's and IP s from concept to product. GDA has a satellite design center at Chennai , India. The GDA web site is www.gdatech.com. About Network Engines Network Engines created the scalable Internet thin server, a high-density network device that supports the largest Web-based applications through embedded load balancing and management intelligence. The company was founded in 1997 and is based in Randolph, Mass. For more information, visit the company Web site at http://www.networkengines.com/. Network Engines and XEngine are trademarks of Network Engines, Inc. Pentium is a trademark of Intel Corp. Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corp. GDA Technologies, Inc. is a product development partner for system and semiconductor companies serving the PC, networking and consumer electronics industry. GDA's design services include System, ASIC, FPGA, Synthesizable cores and Libraries. The methodology used by GDA allows customers to maintain their intellectual property in vendor independent Verilog or VHDL language and target their silicon vendor of choice for final silicon. GDA specializes in turnkey system and IC design services from specification to prototype. "We needed a turnkey silicon solution, and it had to work right the first time. GDA Technologies provided the tools to bring up the initial design and managed the development process with both the FPGA and ASIC vendors. This turnkey approach allowed us to focus our resources towards our core business," stated Dave Reed, Director of Technical Marketing at NVIDIA Corporation. GDA Technologies, Inc. has established relationship with various FPGA, ASIC and EDA vendors for faster turnaround time from design specification to prototype. "GDA Technologies has a unique combination of expertise in design, state of the art design methodologies and EDA tools. We are excited to be their partner in delivering this ASIC, right the first time," stated Mano Vafai, Director of Engineering at Kawasaki LSI, USA. "The ability to get the silicon right the first time is due to GDA's methodology and the processes followed by our engineers. This particular project was a team effort between NVIDIA, GDA and Kawasaki LSI and we are pleased to see success for such an outstanding effort," said A G Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, Inc. GDA used the 4000E and 4000XL series devices from Xilinx FPGA and 0.5 Micron technologies from Kawasaki LSI, USA. NVIDIA Company Information NVIDIA Corporation designs, develops, markets and sells high-performance 3D processors for personal computers. NVIDIA has been recognized as one of the hottest semiconductor companies in Upside Magazine's December 1997 article titled "Mr. Hot Chips '97" and was honored as The Most Respected Private Fabless Company by the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) in November 1997. NVIDIA is a privately held company with venture financing. Corporate headquarters are in California: NVIDIA Corporation, 1226 Tiros Way, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. (408) 617-4000. http://www.nvidia.com/. GDA Company Information GDA is a premier design house located in Silicon Valley. GDA was established to be a product development partner for companies in the computer, networking and consumer electronics industries. GDA specializes in designing System, ASIC, FPGA and Synthesizable cores and Libraries. GDA team focuses on implementing the design with the latest tools and methodologies thus ensuring quality products at the shortest possible time. GDA is a privately held company located at 2071 Junction Ave. San Jose , CA 95131. (408) 432-3090 x12. http://www.gdatech.com/. "GDA's state of the art design capabilities, combined with its expertise in PC technologies enables Nexar to provide our customers with the highest-quality, most advanced PC design in the industry," said Albert J Agbay, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nexar Technologies Inc. "This product design and development partnership with GDA furthers Nexar's mission to provide our customers with an "infinite PC" - the only one that is designed specifically to support new and emerging technologies to effectively extend the lifecycle of the PC." Nexar's high quality, fully upgradable PCs feature removable side panels and an innovative motherboard architecture that enables non-technical users to easily access, customize and affordably upgrade the chip, hard drive, memory and expansion cards with no tools required, using off-the-shelf components. The NEXAR system also provides unprecedented seamless upgrades to new and emerging technologies, including Intel Pentium processors with MMX technology, the AMD-K6 processor, SDRAM and USB. AG Karunakaran, President of GDA Technologies, explained that this is an endorsement of GDA's capabilities as a highly skilled design house in the Silicon Valley. "We are setup to design products from concepts and quickly get to high volume manufacturing. This relationship with Nexar is a clear example of effective outsourcing to reduce costs and time to market." Nexar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NEXR), manufactures and markets a new category of high-quality personal computer systems that offer consumer and business users the industry's highest level of flexibility and investment protection through complete customization and upgradability. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., Nexar sells its systems through a limited channel of national and regional network of value added resellers (VARs), distributors, and system integrators. Nexar is a majority-owned subsidiary of Palomer Medical Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: PMTI), a publicly-held corporation that develops, manufactures and markets laser devices and electronics products. GDA Technologies is a premier design house located in Silicon Valley. GDA was established to be a product development partner for companies in the computer and network industries. They focus on designing Synthesizable cores, ASICs, FPGA's and boards from concept to product. The GDA web site is at www.gdatech.com.
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